Question about JKR interview in The Tatler

[Tonks]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Katherine Coble 
<k.coble at c...> wrote:
>
> I think this is definitely book 7.  And I think that it's probably 
> gonna be Hagrid who bites it. Also, consider that she's doing 
press, and she WANTS us all to be up in arms.  It could be anyone.  
Seriously, maybe Neil is a big fan of Percy Weasley.   As far as 
deaths go, I'd bet the following:
> 
> 1. Hagrid
> 2. Hedwig
> 3. Flitwick
> 4. Charlie Weasley
> 
> Her pattern in creating conflict seems to be:
> 
> 1 major shocking death. For this I vote Hagrid; book 6 was DD.  


Tonks here:

Well let's look at who Harry cares about the most.

Ginny
Ron
Hermione
Hagrid
Molly
Arthur 
Lupin
McGonagall

My guess is that this is going to be bad, really, really bad.  It is 
a "war" after all.  So it will by Ginny and Ron.  Or Ginny, Ron and 
Hermione.   Or Ron and Hermione.  Somehow, Harry will be all alone.  
He will be in a very bad place.  Luna and Neville will help him if 
they can.  But Harry will be suffering a great deal of grief
  
unbearable grief.  

Bad guys dying:
Draco -  This would cause the Malfoys to possible change sides.  We 
would have sister against sister.  And what will happen to Lucius.  
He is too rich of a character to let disappear in Azkaban. 

Snape, of course will have to die at some point in the book. I would 
not expect it early on, however.

Could be some minor bad guys killed too.

All in all I think that JKR will have to (sad to say), top what she 
has done up to now.   That means that book 7 will be worse for all 
of us than any other book up to now.  And worse for poor Harry.  
Whether he ends up alive or dead in the end, it is going to be a 
soul wrenching experience for us all.  But somehow, someway, she 
will, by the grace of God, bring it all to a good end.  What a 
job!!  She has painted herself into a corner here; let's hope that 
she can pull it off.

Tonks_op