[HPforGrownups] Request for opinions (and reasons to justify them)

[sugarkadi at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 44727


MarEprhaim wrote:


> Would any of those who believe that Ron will die in the next (or 
> future) book(s) care to comment on why they think this is so?

I would love to!  Like Rowling said in an interview, a lot of kids think Ron will die because he's Harry's best friend, and that's what they've come to expect.  I suspect that either Ron or Harry will die, but not both, neither, or Hermione(seems to me she's safe; I can't really explain it).

 
> Also, has anyone picked up any evidence from canon or otherwise that 
> would support this possibility?

A lot of people have already noted the fact that Ron's wand is made of willow, like Lily's was (who's dead), and has a unicorn core, like Cedric(who's also dead).  I'm sure that a lot of people Harry knows have Unicorn core and willow wands, but we're not told about them.  When Mr. Olivander greets people he rattles off what their wand is, but only says the cores of some people.  
Also, in SS one of the centaurs says that it's always the innocent who go first.  I think he was referencing the dead unicron they found in the forest, but I also think it's foreshadowing.

> (Just wanting to prepare myself ahead of time if it really 
> is likely 
> to happen!)

I don't want either of them to die, either, but I think it'll happen.  Rowling's said one at least one death will be really horrible to write.  How jolly.  (Listening to Fight Fiercely Harvard, sorry.)

~Katey