Why Hagrid's going 2 Snuff it - possible spoilers

[mavencree]

No: HPFGUIDX 53684

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Lynn" <lynntownsend100 at y...> 
wrote:
> Maybe I'm a bit out of the loop here, but when I was looking
> over the polls about who everyone thinks JK Rowling is going
> to kill off, I was shocked at the "good"(For want of a better
> word) Hagrid got. I have just one question: Why him?



I read this in an on-line interview last year.  JK was asked if 
Hagrid was going to live to see the end of the series.  She paused 
and then said, "...He'll be around."  And that's all she would say 
about it.  This leads me to believe that Hagrid is going to die and 
then come back as a ghost.  She *has* said that we are going to find 
out more about the ghosts and this would be one way to do it.

There was also an artile in "This Is London", linked from TLC, from 
Robbie Coltrain in which he says: 

'I know about what happens to Hagrid, which is something author JK 
Rowling told me from the beginning to help me prepare me for the 
part,' he said. 'There is a death in the fifth book of a central 
character. But I can't say more than that.' 

I think Hagrid's going to be a verrrrrrrrrrry large spectral figure.  
(Wouldn't it be great if he paid a visit to the Dursleys!) ;P

Maven