Newcomer + Book 5 prediction

[Kewpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 27716

Hi everyone, 
I'm a new Harry Potter fan (so late ^^;;) and I'm happy to find a 
group with all these interesting discussion. 

I don't know if someone talked about this before already (I'm sure 
there is, I've been going thru. the archieve roughly for the past 
week too),  about Book 5, after reading many J.K. Rowling interview, 
I'm pretty much confident to say that the person who's a "Harry's 
fan" will die is Dumbledore. I totally don't see the point of killing 
off minor characters like Ginny or Colin and such, because similar 
situation already happen in GoF, the impact of "the death of a minor 
chara" has already been done. So in Book 5, a very major chara will 
die and it'll be Dumbledore.  and I read an interview that J.K. 
Rowling said book 5 will be "the end of an era", which strengthen the 
idea of Dumbledore's death (the end of the "dumbledore as headmaster 
era").  I think Dumbledore probably predicted his death already and 
told the teachers. Probably he told Snape to do something after his 
death (like become the next Headmaster?  no...McGonagall will be the 
next Headmaster and Snape might replace McGonagall?) 
anyways, I would like to know if anyone agress with me.