Future Deaths

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 106650

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Anastasia" 

> Several assumptions have been made who will die in books 6&7. 
> Here comes my attempt to collect them in one thread, as I think 
this 
> is not unimportant for the future happenings. 
> My ideas about it:
> 
>
> 2) I am afraid I am not sure that Lupin will survive either. His 
> best friends are dead by now. Have you noticed that he was the one 
> most and frequent to be found with Sirius? It's not astonishing but 
> it shows he doesn't have any family (does he?). Additionally, 
> Pettrigrew's hand is out of SILVER which kills werwolves. 
> Coincidence?

Marianne here:

I don't think silver kills werewolves in the JKR universe.  There was 
that small scene during our first visit to 12 Grimmauld Place OoP 
where Dung asks Sirius whether the wine goblets are solid silver.  
Sirius assures him they are, and, later, Remus is described having 
raised his goblet to take a drink of wine.  Now, maybe he's using a 
glass goblet, but I can't help but think that JKR inserted this just 
to clue us in that silver will not have an adverse effect on Remus.

Anastasia:
> I think Lupin would be more than ready to die for Harry if 
> necessary. The DEs would like him dead anyways because he is only 
> half-human in their eyes.
> IMO Lupin does not have really much motivation to stay alife other 
> than fighting against LV and the DEs or protecting Harry. The way 
to 
> change this would be falling in love with someone. (Tonks?)

Marianne:

Oh, no! Please! Not Tonks!  I just can't see it, but I'm one of those 
of the opinion that Remus and Sirius were an item. So, coming from 
that direction, Tonks is just totally inappropriate.  ;-) 

ANastasia:
> Actually, it surprises me that he hasn't become depressive yet and 
> even always comforts others. Well, that makes him absolute 
> outstanding in my eyes. 

Marianne:

I'm not sure that Remus isn't depressed, especially after the events 
at the DoM.  But, by the time we see him meeting Harry at the train 
station, he's probably once again well in control of his grief and, 
since he's there to support Harry, he's quite naturally going to make 
that his first priority.  I agree he does offer others a quiet 
support, as he did with Molly when she confronted the boggart and, 
later at St. Mungo's when he went to talk to the newly-bitten 
werewolf.   

Anastasia:
> 3) Pettigrew seems a good candidate to finally pay his life debt to 
> Harry. He couldn't do that other than dying. (Especially if he has 
> killed Lupin by this time, see point 2.)

Marianne:
Oh, I certainly hope Peter buys the farm, whether or not he's paying 
off any debt.  But, can he only pay off his debt by dying?  Couldn't 
he pay it off by preventing Harry's death? 

You didn't include any other people in your list.  Are you of the 
opinion that Snape will go out in a blaze of glory?  And what about 
all those Weasleys?  Surely at least one of them is destined to be 
knocked off.  If this epic war between the forces of good and evil is 
to continue to resonate, JKR has to bump off a number of characters 
we care about.  Although, she's introduced many bit players.  Perhaps 
her plan is to have a bunch of them get killed offstage and we'll 
only hear about it indirectly through another character relaying that 
information.  That would enable her to make the point that this is a 
continuing, deadly fight and yet let her concentrate on killing off 
only one or two more major characters.
 
Marianne