Chances of being alive at the end of Book 7

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 82396

<<<"T.J." <morgan.cole at n...> wrote:...I've been running through a 
little list in my head...trying to think through who's likely to be 
dead and who's likely to be alive by the end of Book 7.  My personal 
belief...is that JKR still sees HP basically as a series of young-
adult...novels, and is somewhat...bound by the conventions of that 
genre, so that although there will be deaths in order to demonstrate 
the total evil of Voldemort and company, there will not be a 
wholesale mass slaughter of the "good" wizards, to the extent that 
the future will seem bleak at the end.>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says

<<Harry- Survives. I'm 100% certainly JKR is not going to kill off 
the main character.>>
I couldn't see Harry living happily ever after, but the point made 
that there is no lesson if the hero dies gives me hope. 
 
<<Hermione -- Survives.  99% certain.>>
Yeah. JKR wouldn't kill herself off.

<<Ron -- Survives...I think.>>
I think Ron survives, and eventually becomes Headmaster. Why else 
would there be such frequent reference to Ron's and DD's long noses? 
And we know that DD had red, or at least auburn, hair in his youth. 
 
<<Dumbledore-- Dead, Dead, Dead.>>
To reiterate: dead, and dead again.

<<Hagrid--Survives...I think.>>
Please, no. Love Robbie Coltrane, but Hagrid's beginning to get on my 
nerves big time. Also Harry's beginning to see Hagrid's faults.

<<Neville Longbottom--Dead.>>
Setting up Neville as an alternate hero effectively dooms him and 
saves Harry.

<<Snape--Survives. But I'm only giving this about a 70% certainty. I 
could see him getting killed off.>>
If he survived, he'd have to mellow out -- feh. I'd like to see him 
die heroically and become a Hogwarts ghost; maybe thereby releasing 
Sir Nicholas and becoming, reluctantly, the Gryffindor ghost!

<<Draco--Survives.  You can't kill his kind.>>
He's Harry's foil. I think we are going to see some character 
development for him, and I think he'll survive.

<<...all the rest of the Weaseleys, the Dursleys, other Hogwarts 
students, Remus Lupin...I confidently expect to survive.>>
I thought Molly Weasley was going to be the big death of Book V. I 
still think she's doomed. I see her death as giving Arthur the hard 
shell he'll need as postwar Minister of Magic. Ginny could die by the 
same narrative logic as Neville. And yes, there *are* too many 
Weasleys. At least one of the boys (not Ron) is going to die. The 
most traumatic death (which would fulfill the "difficult to write" 
and "ruthless" conditions that JKR has set) would be one of the 
twins. Percy also is in narrative-logic trouble.

One of the Dursleys could die, prompting the redemption of the 
surviving two, and Lupin will live as the last of the Marauders.

--JDR