Could it be this easy?

[samanthaledwards]

No: HPFGUIDX 61150

I'm inclined to think it's even more obvious, Snape. For an 
apparently not (really) evil character he's too pathetic to be 
redeemed any other way and Voldemort vowed to kill the deatheater 
that had left him forever at the end of GoF. 
Maybe I'm just naive, but I'm having a lot of fun speculating

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Laura" <lo572 at y...> wrote:
> 
>  I'm wondering about the death that is happening in OotP and I 
can't 
>  help but to wonder if it's something so simple that we wouldn't 
even 
>  think of it. I think it could be (and I hate to say it) Sirius 
Black 
>  and here's why.
> 
> 
>  I think that situation could be possible, but we should take into 
> consideration  that people were dispatched at the end of GoF, a 
full year after 
> the events of  PoA.  I'm inclined to believe that the news about 
Sirius' 
> innocence would have  reached Arabella Figg by then.  I don't 
think it'll be 
> Sirius simply because he's  not as fleshed out as the other 
important 
> characters are.  
> 
>  My personal opinion is, sadly, leaning towards Hagrid.  I can't 
> really place my  finger on why, but mostly because he's an 
important, central, 
> popular  character, but on the other hand, he's not someone as 
central as 
> Harry/Ron/ Hermione/Dumbledore.  I can also see Dumbledore 
presented 
> with a  challenge in this book or the next with trying to 
reinforce the 
> faith of the giants  after Hagrid's gone.  JK already said how sad 
she was 
> writing this character's  death, this would obviously be very sad, 
and I think 
> she might grant Hagrid a  very noble death just to resolve and 
rectify his flaws.
> 
>  so, that's my take on it!!
>  
> ~Lo