Another death?

[stbjohn2]

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> jcb54me  wrote:
> "Just ran across a report on the news that Rowlings says another 
character is going to die in the Half-Blood Prince.  Has anyone else 
heard of this or is it old news to everyone but me."
> 
> DuffyPoo replied:
> Straight from the recent bout of FAQ on jkrowling.com:
> 
> "Are you going to kill any more characters?
> 
> Yes, sorry."
> 
Sandy weighs in:
Well, since JKR long ago revealed that the final chapter of book 7 is 
an epilog that reveals what happens "to the students who survive," I 
don't think it came as much of a shock to anyone that there would be 
more deaths.
I'm guessing this ended up on the news because some editor who 
doesn't know a whole lot about HP (except, perhaps, that it's a multi-
billion dollar business) heard it (maybe from their kid who saw it on 
the web site), decided it was worth a story, and assigned it to some 
poor reporter who had to turn it into something. (I once went to a 
journalism seminar with 20-plus professional journalists, and each 
and every one had at least one example of a time they'd had to write 
such a "because-it's-news-to-the-assigning-editor" article that 
really had no news value.)
Sandy, who's now happily remembering all the many reasons she left 
the grind of daily journalism