[HPforGrownups] Doomed, they're doomed! [Revised and expanded]

[Richelle Votaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 46147

PipSqueak! did a great job of laying down odds on just about everybody who
could possibly die between now and book 7.  Perhaps it would be easier to
take bets on who will live to tell the tale?  I simply can't resist, so I'll
comment on a few.

> Hagrid: In love, responsible mission, come to terms with his half-
> giant-hood. Doomed, he's doomed.

Yes, most definitely doomed

> Remus Lupin: Back in Book 5. Probability that JKR would find his
> death hard to write high, though werewolves can be surprisingly
> difficult to kill [ghostly voice says `the silvery hand. the SILVERy
> hand.]

I am a bit worried about him.  There's the fact that he is coming back in
book 5, he's one of JKR's favorites so it would be hard to write.  That
could be putting 2 and 2 together and getting 5, though.  I can always hope.

> Besides, at least one of McGonagall or Snape has to survive, as
> someone has to explain all the plot points at the end of Book 7. ;-)

My money's on McGonagall living.  She will finally get her due time in Book
7.  She'll be the only one of the trio who delivered Harry to the Dursleys
left alive.  She'll have the last words in book 7, something like
"Dumbledore was right.  It was a handy thing, that scar."  What kind of odds
can I get on that? :)

> Side bets that Draco is strangled by Lucius Malfoy will be accepted
> at 10 to 1.

I can actually see Draco's death becoming a horrible thing.  When his father
either allows him to die for his own benefit or in some way stands idley by
while Draco dies a slow, painful death.  But I think not in Book 5.

> Dennis Creavey: Yes.  Well, we are talking about 'kill the spare'
> Rowling here. :-)
> Book 5: Even money. By Book 7: No bets accepted.

I almost wonder if Dennis' entire existence is only to be killed somewhere
along the way.  Poor kid.  Cute little thing, too.

> Mundungus Fletcher: Who? Would you care? Would I care? Would JKR
> care?

<yawn>  Sorry, pardon me.  If we're supposed to care, JKR has a lot of work
to do before he can bite the dust.

> Mrs Weasley: Well, it would certainly be difficult to write. And
> difficult to read. And difficult for the entire Weasley family to
> get over. And difficult for Harry to get over. And difficult for
> Errol the owl to get over. And difficult for the ghoul in the attic
> to get over .

Mrs. Weasley is the closest thing Harry has to a mother figure.  I think
before she can die she must fulfill her destiny.  Harry must, at some point,
cry on her shoulder.  It is too often foreshadowed to not happen.  What with
all the hugs and the almost cry in GoF, it's gotta happen.  After that,
well, who knows.  But she can't die until Harry gets his cry in.  She just
can't.

> Ron: More likely to Betray Harry Then Repent than actually get
> killed. Symbolic hints are being dropped all over the place.
> Interestingly, when Harry read Ron's tea leaves he gave his future
> as 'trials and suffering' followed by 'great happiness' (GoF UK

If Ron indeed becomes the betrayer/repenter/etc. I think it will stem from a
Weasley death. I don't know which Weasley death, but something that Ron
considers Harry responsible for.  Like somebody doing something to save
Harry, something like that.  But I think OoP is too early for that to
happen.

> Harry: Could only be more doomed if he walked under a ladder while
> simultaneously waving at the Headless Horseman. But he may survive
> his death.

Yes!  That's it!  Harry dies, but survives his death.  I been sayin' it.
Ain't I been sayin' it?

> And finally:
> Voldemort.  Well, what do YOU think?

Inadvertantly commits suicide by killing Harry.  Who survives his own death,
somehow relating to Elixir of Life or pure innocence or something.  So,
there you have it!  That's how Harry "kills" Voldemort without *killing*
Voldemort.  So Harry doesn't become a murderer, even in the best sense of
the word.

Richelle