[HPforGrownups] Dumbledore's Death

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In a message dated 8/10/2003 5:33:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time, bohcoo writes:

> POA, ch. 11, pg. 228, American Edition, Trelawney speaking:
> "'I dare not, Headmaster! If I join the table, we shall be thirteen! Nothing could be more unlucky! Never forget that when thirteen dine together, the first to rise will be the first to die.'"
>  
> GOF, ch. 23, pg. 415-419, American Edition
> "The House tables had vanished; instead there were about a hundred smaller, lantern-lit ones, each seating about a dozen people." 
> 
> (Reading through that section, we know that the judges and the champions with their partners are seated together at the top table: Dumbledore, Karkaroff, Bagman, Maxime, Percy, Krum & Hermoine, Harry & Parvati, Roger & Fleur, Cedric & Cho. Thirteen people.)
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> "When the food had been consumed, Dumbledore stood up and  asked the students to do the same."
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> 
> Uh. Oh.

Hooray! How exciting!!!  :)
Oh. Ahem. I would cry buckets to see DD die, honestly. It's just that I feel pretty confident we'll have to say goodbye to the wonderful man sometime in Book 7, and this is a little hint in favor of that theory. What else have we got (other than GoF's constant references to how old and tired he looks)?
Actually, who wants to start a running list of hints for each character to die in the upcoming books? We know there will probably be more, so who's next? What has JKR already hinted at?

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