The Death of Book 5

[Scott Peterson]

No: HPFGUIDX 59402

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Milica Meili 
<ashadowchild at y...> wrote:
> Merlin <distractedone at c...> wrote:
> J.K.R. has already stated that the character will not be one of the 
three main characters of Harry Ron or Hermione, but she did say that 
the person has been around since the first book and that they were a 
fan of Harry's.
> 
> Merlin
> 
> Hi everyone
>
<snip> 
>I think it could very well be Neville. <snip> 
> 
> shadow child
> 

Me:

Another newbie checking in...

The one thing that keeps coming back to my mind when thinking of the 
Book 5 death is this:  Harry ALWAYS faces Voldie (and his supporters) 
alone.  

PS/SS:  He battles Voldie and Quirrel alone because Ron is 
unconscious and there isn't enough ice potion for Harry and Hermione.

CS: Harry battles Tom and the basilisk alone (well, fawkes and the 
hat make an appearance I guess - but no humans) because Ron and 
Goldilocks are behind a wall of rocks.

PoA:  Harry, although not alone, does make the final decision to keep 
Voldie's worm(tail) alive to rescue Voldie yet again.

GoF:  Cedric is executed to leave Harry alone (again, ghosts appear 
to help him - hmmm, maybe I am talking myself out of this one)  

Sidenote: by the way, that death still haunts me.  It still doesn't 
make sense that Cedric died.

It keeps occuring to me that maybe Ron won't be lucky enough to be 
injured this time - they will face Voldie together, and Ron won't 
make it.  That would be a terrible loss - I'd hate to see it happen, 
but has it been foreshadowed in GoF?

The biggest tragedy of having Ron die would be that we would never 
see him grow up.  I remember being a scrawny 13 year old and worried 
about money.  My parents were above middle-class, I had no older 
brothers and sisters, and I had an above average allowance.  I still 
remember worrying where I would get the money to buy the things I 
wanted (a car in my case).  

I would really enjoy seeing Ron turn into the good-looking, 
confident, Quidditch keeping, muscle rippling stud that occurs when a 
boy becomes a man.  

Scott