Dumbledore Dying and Terrible Book 5 Death (WAS Re: Dumbledore's Age )

[Tim]

No: HPFGUIDX 46108

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "ingachristsuperstar" 
<ingachristsuperstar at y...> wrote:
> Just to be different than everyone, I'm going to suggest that 
> Dumbledore will die in Book 6 - in fact I'm almost certain of it.
> 
> Think about it.  We need three more climactic moments (one 
> each for the next 3 books).  We've been told many times that LV 
> never tried to take over Hogwarts during his first reign because 
> Dumbledore was too powerful.  We can pretty much assume 
> that Book 7 will focus on an attempted coup of Hogwarts, the 
> most important social structure of the wizard world.  LV will not 
> attempt this until Dumbledore is dead.  So, we need a dead 
> Dumbledore by Book 7.  But his death can't be a side note or a 
> sub-plot.  It has to be a climactic moment.
> 
> So, Dumbledore's death is the climax of Book 6, leaving Harry 
> without protection for the first time to save the day in Book 7.
> 
> It just makes literary sense.
> 
> BTW: We know the death in Book 5 will be a big fan of Harry's.  
> My money is on one of the Weasleys.  The Creevey's seem a bit 
> too obvious.
> 
> -Ing

There are several "fan's of Harry's" people seem to be forgetting 
when guessing who might bite the big one in OoP.  How about Cho?  
She's a fan of Harry's, and, as Harry's first crush, it would be 
extremely difficult to write about from Harry's POV.  How about 
Oliver Wood?  Sure, he's already graduated from Hogwart's, but his 
death would surely affect Harry.  The same goes for Angelina Johnson, 
Katie Bell, and the third Chaser (sorry, don't have my books handy at 
the moment and for the life of me I can't remember her name... of 
course it will come to me the minute I hit the send button.)  Harry's 
played on the same Quidditch team with them for the past 4 years... 
even if they didn't play last year because of the Tri-Wizard Tourny.  
I could also see Dean Thomas, who's had very little to do so far, 
really hit close to home for Harry.  Just some thoughts.

Tim