TBAY: Bill is Ever So Dead with DIMINISHED CAPACITIY (was: Lupin is Ever so Dead

[marinafrants]

No: HPFGUIDX 55165

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "errolowl" <errolowl at y...> 
wrote:
> "Exactly!" Marina bangs the table so hard that everyone's glasses 
> jump. "When that veteran cop talks about retiring at the end of 
the 
> case; when the baby-faced rookie soldier reads that letter from 
his 
> pretty fiance back in Iowa; when that hard-bitten commando waxes 
> poetic about the Montana ranch where he's going to settle down 
once 
> the mission is over -- that's when you stamp 'Dead Meat' on the 
> character's forehead."
> 
> I grined cheerfully." I know you're using that as an argument
> against Hagrid, Mariana--and you believe that happy things don't
> seem to be on the cards for Lupin. But don't you agree that
> Bill's just about ripe for romance and settling down? What say we 
> hear more about his dreams and aspirations in OotP? After all,
> it's a fact well established that a single young man with a good
> job must be in search of a wife...

Hmm... You know, Errol, I think you're onto somethng here.  In the 
later chapters of GoF, I seem to recall a definite suggestion of 
Fleur Delacour finding Bill rather... uhm... fanciable.  And then we 
get a hint that Fleur might be returning to England the following 
year.  Sounds to me like there is romance blooming in Bill's future, 
which, for a supporting character, is a sure-fire way to lower life 
expectancy.

Marina
rusalka at ix.netcom.com