Mundungus Will Bite the Bullet in Book 5 (WAS: Who will it be?)

[erisedstraeh2002]

No: HPFGUIDX 46097

bugaloo37 challenged us thusly:

> In an interview held while attending the London Premiere,  JKR 
> stated for the record that a "bad death" will occur in book 5-one 
> she has found particularly hard to write.  Okay folks-who will it 
> be?  

Now me:

Well, I can't resist the urge to deposit my two knuts into the bag.  
What if it's a la Cedric - a character that's just been mentioned in 
passing in the earlier books that takes on a bigger role in Book 5 
and then gets the axe in the end?  This would actually make more 
sense to me than killing off one of the main characters when there 
are two books left to go in the series.

So, on this premise, a likely candidate could be Mundungus Fletcher.  
He's been mentioned in passing in CoS and in GoF, and JKR said in an 
interview that we'll learn more about him in OoP.  So my vote's for 
Mundungus (plus, I believe Mundungus is a kind of tripe, and JKR has 
said that tripe's the only food she won't eat, so it would make sense 
for her to kill him off if he reminds her of a horrid food...).

~Phyllis