Some foreshadowing to Hermione's death??

[prefectmarcus at yahoo.com]

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Sofie Campbell" <sofie_elisabeth at y...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Meg Rose" <megrose_13 at y...> wrote:
> > Ok, my sincerest apologies if this subject has come up but I was 
> > thinking to myself this morning about several instances of 
possible 
> > foreshadowing to Hermione's death:
> > 
> > The most obvious one is in GoF when Harry rescues her from the 
lake 
> > and she says, (Loose quote here guys, bear with me....) "You did 
it 
> > on your own!  You figured it out!"  I think this is showing how 
> Harry 
> > is slowly weaning himself off of Hermione's assistance and 
> > eventually, when she dies(?) it'll be ok because he is self-
> > sufficient??  Ok, that sounded better in my head, but oh well...  
> > 
> > I believe a similar incident occurs when Hermione is stunned in 
> > CoS...  When she gets "unfrozen" doesn't she get excited that he 
> > figured it out on his own??  
> 

Somewhere out there is a quote from JKR -- I know its there, I read it 
several times -- where someone asked her if Hermione and Harry had a 
duel, who would win?  She replied that up to about halfway through 
PoA, Hermione would have, but now Harry is getting very good at DADA.



> Am I correct in thinking that the goddess that is Joanne rowling as 
said at some point that Ron was a planned charcter from the start of 
the idea and that he has a purpose will Hermione is actually a 
self-insertion of herself.


I do not believe she is any more of a self-insertion than Prof. 
Lockhart is an insertion of somebody she knew.  The Trio needs 
Hermione.  She's the third leg of the three-legged stool.  

JKR has remarked several times that while Hermione is a caracature 
(sp?) of her younger self, she is not JKR.  Hermione is Hermione, not 
Joanne.

Marcus