Harry's 'fan' dying.

[rachelrenee1]

No: HPFGUIDX 32097

Kieren said:

> Most of us know the rumour that one of Harry's fans will die in 
OotP 
> (or was it just in a future book?  Can't remember), and i've heard 
> the name Colin Creevey tossed around as a possibility.
> 
> My thoughts, when I heard the rumour, didn't run to Colin so much 
as 
> *Dennis* Creevey - I can't think of any other reason the character 
> may have been introduced, and his death might force Colin to 'grow 
> up' a bit.


Humm, I must be a real pessimist, because I was teaming this "fan" 
dying, with the other prediction that Harry would have to examine 
daeth more closely and I came up with Hagrid dying.  I mean, why 
would either Colin or Dennis make Harry stop and think more about 
death than Cedric already had?  I mean he saw Cedric get toasted by 
Wormtail, he had a little tete-a-tete with Cedric's shadow and then 
dragged the dead body he felt responsible for all the way back to 
Hogwarts with him and would not release it until Dumbledore prised it 
from his hands.

So I posit that it should be someone that Harry is closer to and so 
would feel an even deeper sense of loss, not just, guilt, about.  
Hagrid is really one of the few outside of the trio that fits the 
bill.  Dumbledore might be on his way out too, with all of the "tired 
and old" references, but that seems too easy and I don't think that 
Dumbledore, though he likes and respects Harry, really fits as 
a "fan."  Anyway, just my 2 sickles (and a couple of knuts thrown in 
for good measure.)

Rachel