Alley OoP! Predictions/Deaths Etc

[isiscolo <ilana@windom.netrack.net>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49156

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Sunnylove0 at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 1/2/2003 6:33:57 PM Mountain Standard Time, 
> DaveH47 at m... writes:
 > > Will Harry have ANY adult role models left??
>    Maybe Sirius, but I doubt it.

My prediction, not necessarily for OoP but for one of the
future books, is that both Hagrid and Dumbledore will die,
based on the idea that the death of Harry's adult role models
will force him into greater self-reliance.

I don't know if this has been discussed -- I'm extremely
new here -- but I see Hagrid as Harry's surrogate mother
and Dumbledore as a surrogate grandfather.  Hagrid is nurturing
and affectionate, to people as well as to animals;  he
baked Harry a birthday cake, took him to get his school
things, and makes him tea when he's unhappy.  Dumbledore
is fair but willing to listen and bend the rules if needed,
tells Harry stories with important morals, gives him gifts
(in a sense -- passing the cloak along), gives him safety.

My guess is that Hagrid will die in #5 and Dumbledore in #6.
I'm not sure about Sirius -- I think he will live to be
reunited with Harry in the end, but will be forced through
circumstances to be apart from him for much of the next
books.  And as I said in a previous post on the S.N.O.T.
thread, I think that in the final book either Harry will 
save Snape's life, Snape will die to save Harry's life,
or (how I would write it) both will happen in that order.

As far as other characters go, I haven't a clue, although
I agree that the Weasleys will probably lose a few members
(I particularly like the idea of Percy going to the dark
side, I think that has been well set up) and I expect that
Draco will survive to a climactic battle with Harry in #7.

I.