I don't expect a complete bloodbath

[Jim Ferer <jferer@yahoo.com>]

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

Just wait. JKR herself has said there will be many more deaths going
forward.  One of her themes has always been that evil is *evil*, and
heroes pay a price.  Hogwarts may not end up like the Sunken Road, but
many good people are going to die.

Janet:? 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 doubt we?ll lose any of the core principals in Book 5.  Look for
your bloodbath in Book 6, the last half of which I predict which will
be the darkest hour for Hogwarts and the wizard world.

I look for Dumbledore to die in Book 6 or maybe 7, and he will not
come back as a ghost, IMO.  Harry is going to have to face Voldemort
at the end alone, without help, and Dumbledore?s death will be the
passing of the torch from the greatest wizard of one generation to the
greatest wizard of another. It wouldn?t be as effective if
Dumbledore?s ghost was still hanging around to give advice.

I realize in the four books there?s been only one death, but Cedric?s
death is the first blow of the Second Voldemort War, so I don?t think
we can go by the previous books.  I?d say a better example would be
the first War, where wizards and Muggles alike died in large numbers.

Jim Ferer, wondering if Ken Burns is available to make the documentary