Question: OoP Predictions and Death

[erisedstraeh2002]

No: HPFGUIDX 44107

Steve (bboy_mn) wrote:

> JKRowling has said there will be more deaths coming, but I don't 
> think she necessarily said they would be in this next book. 
> That certainly doesn't invalidate speculation on, if some one will 
> die in OoP, and who that someone might be. It was just a thought 
> that occurred to me. 
> 
> Can anyone confirm that? Was it a general statement, or was she
> actually talking about OoP? 

Now me:

I feel like the resident HPfGU researcher today!  Here are three 
quotes I found with their links (all from the Aberforths Goat site):

http://books.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4326559,00.html

"The billionaire author reveals that she has already decided the fate 
of all the major characters, and hints that some could be killed off. 
The programme, to go out tonight on BBC1, shows Rowling holding the 
final chapter of the series to the camera and saying 'this is it, and 
I'm not opening it for obvious reasons.'

Describing the chapter, she says, 'this really wraps everything, it's 
the epilogue and I basically say what happens to everyone after they 
leave school, those who survive - because there are deaths, more 
deaths coming...There's at least one death that's going to be 
horrible to write.'"

http://home.scottsburg.com/trinkle/rowlinginterview.htm

"She intimated that as the series progresses the mood may darken. The 
death of one character in the fourth book, she said, is 'the 
beginning of the deaths.'" 

http://www.geocities.com/aberforths_goat/June_2000_Ann_Treneman_The_
Times.htm

"Yes, this is the book in which the deaths start. I always planned it 
this way."

So, no direct reference to deaths in Book 5.  But she does say that 
the deaths *start* in Book 4, which implies that subsequent books 
will have deaths in them, but there's no specificity about which 
books they will be.

~Phyllis