Another death? (in HBP)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 115741


Kethryn wrote:
> 
> 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... <snip>

Carol responds:
I just had a thought based on your last sentence. Suppose she removes
his (adult) support group one person at a time: first Lupin, then
McGonagall, then Dumbledore--and his support group is reduced to one
person, Snape, as it was in OoP, only this time the others are all dead?

Just a thought, but it could happen, and we know that Snape will play
a key role of some sort in Book 7.

Carol, not wanting all those deaths but still intrigued by the possibility