[HPforGrownups] Digest Number 367

[Maya Crabtree]

No: HPFGUIDX 7846


>In the delightful issue of who dies I have nothing to offer but my gut
feelings.
>First of all, I disagree with anyone who thinks that one of the major
characters (Harry,
>Hermione, Ron) will die. I will bet anybody my last knut that the end of
book 7 will find
>them alive and well (after M. Pomfrey regrows several of their organs,
obviously).


I tend to agree with that. Maybe I'm being naive, but let's not forget that
she writed for children, Okay, maybe more adults read it than children, but
as she often says, and as I heard her say in the interview with her I
watched yersterday, seh exxentially still aims this for children reading,
and so when she DOES kill, it won't be dramaticlly. So, no matter how many
death eaters die - she will not go popping off "Good " carachters one by
one. Whether you prefer Ron or Harry to "win" Hermione, or if they even go
their own seperate ways (because, that's still AN option  in the end,isn't
it) there's no chance she's gonna kill the essential "Good".


>I also quite firmly believe that these will not die either - Dumbledore (if
he dies, it
>will be at the end of book 7 only),

Actually, that guess makes my previous assersion a little unsound if I agree
with it. All along book 4 I though I saw signs of Dubledore's death (not in
book 4 ).It's pretry obvious, Harry mentiones how old Dunmbeldore's looking
infinite number of times...;-) So I do have a feeling he will either die
naturally, or die heroiclly, but in a stage in which he knows he's not far
from death any way., Not because he's not brave, but because he is too
"Good" to die. I'd even started to imagine what the school would look like
with a new principal (someone new, not Mcgonagall for some reason I don't
know), and that Harry would have no one to turn to. But I am really at a
loss about Dumbledore. On one hand, getting rid of him WILL make a change,
because as it is now, all the books end like a murder mystery, the detective
uncoveres everything and solves the mystery - that's Dumbldore, On the other
 hand - you just wouldn't feel safe. not just harry - but the reader as
well, who always knows that whatever happens, Dumbledore will make all right
at the end...

>These are the possible deaths (I feel like some kind of Trelawney now):
Bill or Charley
>Weasley, Crookshanks, either Lupin OR Sirius, a not very central teacher
(Sprout, Flitwick .

No. Sirius can't die. specially not if harry dies. My bet is on Lupin, who
by all accounts is a VERY noble and good person, brave, intelligent , etc.
We REALLY like him, right? Almost like serious or just as much as Sirius.
However, he is not serious, so he is a much better candidate to kill. I
suppose. However, I think I personally like him just as much as sirius. So I
really wouldn't want him killed.

> Cho (I don't really think she'll die, though),

Oh, I hope she does.
:-)
Sorry. not that I'm a H/H advocate. If I had to choose it'd be Ron, but I
don';t know who's more likely, if any of them. The point is, this Harry Cho
thing is silly, I never liked it. oh, but if she dies, harry'll have to
express emition and be sad. hm.. I thnk I still prefer that she DID die...
:-)

>Sorry about this, but I realized that in my haste I forgot my prime
candidate for heroic
>death - Dobby. Winkey, of course, is a gonner too.
>

Why davka Dobby?


Maya