References to JKR's quotes on upcoming deaths

[jksunflower2002]

No: HPFGUIDX 98841

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kiricat2001" <Zarleycat at a...> 
wrote:
> 
> JKR also said that one has to be ruthless in writing children's 
> books. She said this in reference to her husband, who was in their 
> ktichen when JKR came in crying after having killed off Sirius, 
and 
> advised her that maybe she shouldn't kill this character since it 
> upset her.  I figure that if she really means it about being 
> ruthless, then a bunch of other characters will die, too.  And, I 
> mean main characters, not just someone who's been mentioned in 
> passing.  Why else do you think there are so many Weasleys???  
It'll 
> be easy to knock a few off.  Either Charlie or Bill (or maybe 
both), 
> and one of the twins.  
> 
> Marianne


Yeah, I see what you mean....but,there are a couple of quotes giving 
me pause:

The Press Democrat Santa Rosa, CA
30 October 1999
http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/quickquotes/articles/1999/1099-
pressdem-lauer.html

She wouldn't say much about the next book but she did reveal that 
one of the characters will die before the seven-volume series 
ends. "I won't say which one, but I will say one of them dies." 

and....

BBC Special
Christmas 2001
http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/quickquotes/articles/2001/1201-bbc-
staff.htm

Death is the most important theme throughout all seven books. "More 
people are going to die. One death is going to be horrible to write. 
IT HAS TO BE." 

Sounds to me as if Sirius was perhaps the BIG DEATH, and that she 
doesn't expect the rest of the deaths to have much of an impact on 
us (obscure students, family of the students, DE's.)  I don't know.  
It's difficult to reconcile these quotes with the ominous warnings 
of impending deaths that she's been hinting at for a few years now.  
Until I read these quotes, I was expecting a blood bath (with Bill 
getting my top vote as first Weasley to be offed.)

Toad (perfectly happy to have the Weasleys make it through intact)