Predictions for Order of the Phoenix: Red Flags a Flyin'!

[Haggridd]

No: HPFGUIDX 25000

> ---- > > > --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Joy M" <joym999 at a...> wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > I think this would be a good time to start collecting 
> > > > > rumors/predictions about OoP, maybe in an FAQ.  We could 
even 
> > > place 
> > > > > odds on them.  It would be fun to see how right we are.  
> IIRC, 
> > > some 
> > > > > people were much better at others at predicting GoF (I was 
> > wrong 
> > > > > about everything; I was sure Sirius was toast.)  Any 
> volunteers?
> > > > > 
> > > > > --Joywitch

I have only just recently arrived at this prediction, which came to
me while listening in my car-- for the umpteenth time!-- to PoA.  At 
the Christmas feast, Trelawney makes the observation that when 
thirteen persons sit to dine, the first to rise will be the first to 
die.  Harry and Ron are the first two to rise, but JKR makes it 
explicit that they are uncertain who rose first.  At that moment, I 
saw the proverbial red flag flying.  Clever JKR disguises it by
having Professor McGonagall make the famous "Tripe, Sibyl?" pun, but 
that is just like JKR.  Adding to this her RL statements about an 
important character dying, I therefore predict that Ron will die, as
I simply cannot conceive that it will be Harry.

Haggridd