[HPforGrownups] Future sacrifices?

[Suzanne McFadyen]

No: HPFGUIDX 9779

I also have been lurking but thought I'd throw my two cents in. I watched an
interview with JKR with a canadian journalist named Evan Solomon (show
called  HotType - very cool show if anyone happens to get CBC newsworld).
She talked about the fact that things were going to get a bit grim and
alluded to the fact that someone else was going to die and not someone on
the sidelines. Strangely my first thought was Hagrid. I must admit I would
be fairly upset if it was Ron or Hermione.

Here's the question and her answers

E: You know, characters take on their own lives. They have their own
stories. Writers often say, 'I loved that character and the most tragic part
of my year last year was having to kill them off.' 

JK: Well that's coming. 

E: Do you know already who is going to die in the next books? 

JK: I know all of them who are going to die, yeah. 

E: And some characters we might love and you might love? 

JK: I'm definitely killing people I love, yeah. (Waves to fans outside) It's
horrible, isn't it? (Laughs) It is actually. I cried during the writing of
that one [Book Four] for the first time ever. I cried doing the actual
writing of it. It really upset me. 

Here is a link to the complete transcript of the interview
http://cbc.ca/programs/sites/hottype_rowlingcomplete.html

Suzanne McFadyen


-----Original Message-----
From: Allyson [mailto:allyson at ptd.net]
Sent: January 19, 2001 13:04
To: HPforGrownups at egroups.com
Subject: Re: [HPforGrownups] Future sacrifices?


I am relatively new to this list as well.  I have been more of a "lurker" I
must admit, but I like this question.

I think that, in a difference of opinion, it will be a character like
Hermione or Ron.  We all know it won't be Harry, himself, but I really have
to wonder if JKR would sugar coat the idea of evil/good by NOT killing off a
character near and dear to our hearts.  I personally LOVE Hermione.  She is
by far my favorite character and I would hate to see her killed off, but I
have to wonder.  Should it not be Hermione or Ron, I do believe it will be a
character such as one of the Weasley twins, or possibly Neville.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: ffionmiles at hotmail.com 
To: HPforGrownups at egroups.com 
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 3:46 PM
Subject: [HPforGrownups] Future sacrifices?


Hi!  I'm new to this site - but the discussions I have found 
pottering about HPfor Grownups have been fascinating - I'm glad there 
are other people [out of their teens] who give so much thought to 
these works as I seem to!

I have a topic to discuss - since the books are getting darker, and 
life more complicated, painful, turbulant for Harry & Co, I have a 
feeling that JKR will reflect this 'darkening' by, at some point, 
klling off a character more dear to us than Cedric.
TThis would show that, when there's evil like Voldemort around, 
awful, harrowing things do happen ... but who will it be?

I don't think she'd kill off Harry, Ron or Hermione - that'd just be 
too unbearable - but one of the Weasley twins?  That would really be 
a symbol of how distructive to good people Voldemort is.

Any thoughts?  

Ffion


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