JKR quote re DD dying Was:Re: Snape's future

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 140606

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...>
wrote:
Potioncat:
> But I was actually looking for a quote from JKR saying she  had to 
> kill DD because the boy-hero had to go on alone. I was thinking about 
> a thread from "not so long ago but I can't find" about
> Harry's 
> collection of partial fathers. No one character fills in as a father 
> figure, but several add up to a sort of father. 


Annemehr:
This must be the part you were looking for; it's in part III of the
interview:

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ES: I remember actually putting a poll up on MuggleNet asking people
if they thought [DD] was going to bite it.

JKR: And what was the result? That's really interesting.

ES: The majority thought he was going to die in book six — well, six
or seven. Most thought it was going to be in seven.

JKR: Really. Yeah.

ES: It was probably 65/35, but definitely, most thought he was going
to die.

JKR: Yeah, well, I think if you take a step back, in the genre of
writing that I'm working in, almost always the hero must go on alone.
That's the way it is, we all know that, so the question is when and
how, isn't it, if you know anything about the construction of that
kind of plot.

ES: The wise old wizard with the beard always dies.

JKR: Well, that's basically what I'm saying, yes.
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Annemehr again:
Which just makes me think "too much Star Wars!"

I remember the father figure thread, but durned if I could find it.  I
looked in other groups, thinking it may have been cross-posted, but no
luck.

~Annemehr