Ron to die? (was: well, as it's still Ron's week...)

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No: HPFGUIDX 17129

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Morag Traynor" <moragt at h...> wrote:
> Steve Vander Ark wrote:
> 
> >Ronan said, when Quirrell was killing unicorns, that it is the pure
> >and innocent who always are the first to die.
> >
> >Cedric Diggory was the first to die this time around.
> >
> >Cedric Diggory's wand has a unicorn tail hair at its core.
> >
> >Only one other character is mentioned as having a wand with a 
unicorn
> >tail hair at its core. Ron.
> 
> I really, REALLY, hate to say this, but I may have found some back-
up for 
> this idea.  We know Dumbledore has said that Sybil Trelawney has 
made *two* 
> correct predictions.  I think the "rules of the game" imply that we 
have the 
> other one somewhere in what she has said.  At the Christmas feast 
in PoA, 
> she makes, arguably, two predictions.  One is that Lupin will not 
be among 
> them for long.  Well, that does come true, and I hope that's the 
one, 
> because the other is that the first to rise from their table of 13 
will be 
> the first to die.  The first to rise is either Harry....or Ron.  
Dumbledore 
> responds to the first by saying he doesn't think Lupin is in any 
immediate 
> danger, but he doesn't respond to the second.
> 
> We also know that JKR has said that a "special friend" of Harry's 
will die.  
> Agreed, he has quite a few of these in one way and another.
> 
> I have various reasons for doubting this whole idea, not least that 
Ron is 
> too important a character to die, but please, please post arguments 
against 
> this - I'll agree with them!
> 

OK - I'll oblige <g>. 
I don't agree that "according to the rule of the game" her first true 
prediction is stated. On the contrary, I think it's one of the 
tantalizing references to past occurrunces that JKR loves to sprinkle 
around. 
Besides, Trelawney's second prediction was characterized by a state 
of true trance. It impressed Harry deeply *before* he knew it had 
been fulfilled. The ominous predictions at Christmas dinner were said 
in her normal, "misty" manner. 

Have I managed to reassure you? <g>

Naama