Ron's not dying according to Rowling

[Brittany]

No: HPFGUIDX 53794

Here's one of the quotes that I had read (I put stars around it), 
and I'm still looking for the others.

"It's great to hear feedback from the kids. Mostly they are really 
worried about Ron. *As if I'm going to kill Harry's best friend.* 
What I find interesting is only once has anyone said to me, "Don't 
kill Hermione," and that was after a reading when I said no one's 
ever worried about her. Another kid said, "Yeah, well, she's bound 
to get through O.K." They see her as someone who is not vulnerable, 
but I see her as someone who does have quite a lot of vulnerability 
in her personality. Hermione is me, near enough. A caricature of me 
when I was younger. I wasn't that clever. But I was that annoying on 
occasion. Girls are very tolerant of her because she is not an 
uncommon female type--the little girl who feels plain and hugely 
compensates by working very hard and wanting to get everything just 
so."

Yay, Ron's gonna live, apparently.  If he does die, I shall be 
incredibly miffed.

Brittany