Various ships / who'll die?

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 7686

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, SKTHOMPSON_1 at m... wrote:

> Of course, my whole theory is blown if she kills off Ron.  I don't
> really think she will, but admittedly there's a chance.  Do we all 
> agree that Dumble is a goner?  Aside from him, I'm thinking we may
> lose Hagrid and maybe Lupin.  And Sirius may be a marked man as 
> well. 

I **HOPE** she doesn't end her series by destroying ALL the 
characters AND the ENTIRE wizarding world, as Tolkien ended LOTR by 
sending any surviving magic to Westernesse and rolling the earth into 
a sphere so we-uns can never touch Westernesse. (I am no way 
suggesting that JKR imitates JRRT, whom she has said she never 
read, but surely HP would not be so immensely popular if she had not 
hit upon something so mythic and archetypal that the archetype of 
Apocalypse or Ragnarok would fit right in.)

But I would not be at all surprised if Harry dies in Book 7, in the 
process of completely destroying Voldemort (altho' evil, alas, will 
always be with us, at least as long as free will is). Then, all H/ 
shippiness would be irrelevant. If Ron and Hermione survived, they 
might marry and spend their lives as curators at the shrine of 
Harry's memory, which is the kind of sick thing that human beings do 
(says the Cat).

But I would not be at all surprised if Ron dies sooner than Harry, 
maybe even in the very next book. JKR's phrase "that's when the 
deaths begin" suggests that there are a LOT of deaths. Like World War 
One, in which IIRC more soldiers died than returned  Ron would 
be getting his distinction (dying heroically) as well as doing 
something that none of his brothers had done yet (dying).

But I WOULD be surprised if Hermione dies, as she is the JKR 
character. Even if the entire wizarding world is destroyed, I would 
expect Hermione to survive, exiled to the Muggle world, and writing 
down the whole story as fiction so that at least it will be 
remembered.

This is as good a place as any for me to complain that **no** MWPP/L 
story can be 'brighter later' (aka 'clearing by midmorning'). They 
ALL are 'increasing cloudiness' and 'probability of storms'. 

Oh, I love the happy stories about the fun the Marauders have running 
around as animals or about J and L's first date, but their lives 
don't get better as they goes on. 

They are such wonderful kids, brave and clever and beautiful and 
funny and strong and loyal, and totally confident that they're going 
to save the world pretty quickly and then be free to get on with 
their lives, and totally confident that they'll all live happily ever 
after, and actually they are DOOMED. They don't know that, but we do.

James and Lily die when their child is too young to remember them. 
Sirius spends 12 years in Azkaban followed by some years as a 
fugitive hiding in caves and eating rats. Peter is also a fugitive, 
and even if being a full-time Weasley pet rat is not an unpleasant 
life for a human being, his fear of discovery and his service to 
Voldemort are not pleasant to him. Remus, having lost all his friends 
in one episode, drags through life as an unemployable victim of 
prejudice.

And even the fanfic characters --- Andrea dies, Anika is sentenced 
to a month in Azkaban and left there for 15 years, Jenny raises 
her children in hiding as the wife and children of a universally 
hated traitor murderer. Doom, doom, doom.