[HPforGrownups] I don't expect a complete bloodbath

[srsiriusblack at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 49131

In a message dated 02/01/2003 22:33:43 Eastern Standard Time, 
dorigen at hotmail.com writes:


> -- 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.
> 

Firstly, Hagrid is my absolute last choice of the staff.. only because I 
don't see the death of Snape as a great story line. ( and I hardly think my 
snape/black/lupin loving heart could handle it... but then, I am a softy for 
Hagrid as well.)
Yet, JKR has stated in interviews that there will be many deaths in the 
coming books. I suspect that we will see quite a bit of bloodshed and loss. 
IMHO we haven't seen as much death as there is to come because the books 
mature with the targeted reader, i.e. children who read PS at Harry's age in 
PS are now 15-17 years old and have a greater constitution, understanding, 
and ability to deal with the losses yet to come....

Sadly, if people like Hagrid start dying, I don't think I will be able to 
deal with it. ;)

'Course this is all speculation... 

-Snuffles, now rewriting the 80's Dire Straits song to say "I want my Potter 
Book Five"
"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty 
recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the 
dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with 
open eyes, to make it possible. This I did."  T.E. Lawrence- Seven Pillars of 
Wisdom


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