What will come in book 5/ What colour do you think house-elf blood is?

[Kirstin Innes <kirst_inn@yahoo.co.uk>]

No: HPFGUIDX 50442

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Megalynn S." 
<megalynn44 at h...> wrote:
 
> I myself think Lupin will be killed by Wormtail. The fact that he, 
Wormtail, 
> has been given a silver hand seems to cement that for me. It's 
just the kind 
> of clue JKR likes to leave.
 
Hello.
I'm something of a Lupin fan myself (liking this LIDS business. Are 
there badges?), but I do agree that he has 
sacrificial potential. Rereading PoA, I rather felt that Lupin's 
character - good natured, repeatedly "pleasant", taking fatherly 
interest in Harry - functions almost in loco parentis to pave the 
way for kindly godfather Sirius in GoF. Within the Marauding 
foursome, Lupin is the only one without any *special* connection to 
Harry, yet a big enough character to cause a splash. 
 
> Hagrid, to me, just seems like the obvious special fan and hard 
death to 
> write, but I haven't given up hope.

Fret not!
I don't think that Hagrid really fits this description. He's above 
and beyond that. "Fan" to me suggests someone who Harry would 
consider something of an irritant, rather than look up to/out for. 
Hagrid is a friend of Harry's. "Fan" suggests a less complex 
relationship; perhaps one where the fan in question owes Harry 
something? Freedom from a lifetime of slavery to an odious pure-
blood white-blond wizarding family with a propensity for munching 
mortality, perhaps?

;>

Just a thought. A happy one, but still just a thought. I can easily 
contradict myself of course. The only way in which Dobby The Former 
House Elf's death could be hard to write would surely be stopping 
oneself from exaggerating the torture to X-rated levels. JKR is an 
intelligent woman, and I'm sure she can resist the urge to splash 
Hollywoody pathos all over the place (just imagine it though. The 
final flap of a tiny, care-worn hand, a little voice croaking "Harry 
Potter was always good to Dobby, sir". Harry turns his eyes away to 
hide his tears, and fixes his gaze on a single, mustard-coloured, 
blood-begrimed sock...). Mind you, she did write the wee twannock in 
the first place.

Anyway, he seems like an obvious candidate to me, but the fact that 
nobody else has suggested him rather made me wonder if I was missing 
something. Or perhaps everyone else, traumatised, has resorted to 
memory charms? Sensible folk.

Kirstin, who is new around these here parts, and likes this site an 
awful lot.