I don't expect a complete bloodbath

[Janet Anderson]

No: HPFGUIDX 49130

Heavens. This is the Harry Potter series, not a Civil War novel with 
battlefields full of corpses.

Personally, I expect one or two significant deaths and a much larger number 
of off-camera deaths (like the twelve muggles who were actually killed in 
Pettigrew's fake death).  I don't think it will be Harry, Ron, or Hermione. 
I'd be surprised if it were Dumbledore, but if it is, I think he'll continue 
on as a ghost. I think the most likely candidate would be a member of the 
Weasley family or of the Hogwarts faculty. Of the first, Arthur, Percy, 
Bill, or Charlie, because the others are still at Hogwarts and protected by 
Dumbledore. Of the second, any of the faculty who habitually leave Hogwarts 
-- which would be Snape, Dumbledore (on one of his trips to the Ministry of 
Magic), or, my absolute last choice, Hagrid.

I disagree, however, that characters will be dropping like flies in the last 
three books. After all, in *four* books we've only had one death.

Janet Anderson

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