Another death? (in HBP)

[Kethryn]

No: HPFGUIDX 115376


>>Doddiemoe:

I just had an awful thought...what if everyone Molly Weasley saw 
dead in the bogart scene in OOP actually died in subsequent books? 
They would definitely be a target due to Harry's relationship with 
them. (Look at how LV used Sirius.) Not to mention Ginny's having 
been possessed by the memory of Tom Riddle in COS.<<



Kethryn -

Well, if JKR does kill off the Weasley children, not only will I be upset that she killed off some of the best characters in the book, but I will be hugely upset at what I will see as a cop out.  Ho - hum, kill the hubby and most of the children...funny, doesn't Saving Private Ryan start something along those lines?  Or, in other words, that's a plot that's been dragged through the mud a couple thousand times.  I will agree, however, that the odds are stacked against the Weasley family surviving intact (which sucks cause I do like them, even that git, Percy) simply because there are so many of them floating around, either in the Order, working for the Ministry, or being Harry's friend (and all sundry combinations therein).

How wrong would it be to start a pool on who survives and who doesn't?  Personally, I have this feeling that McGonagall is a goner but it could also be Lupin or one of the elder Weasley children.  You know, removing Harry's support group one person at a time...

Kethryn who is rather shocked at herself for thinking like Voldemort for even half a second there...