Subject: Who dies in 7?

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 146315

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Cheryl" <xcpublishing at y...> 
wrote:
>
> This started on OT Chatter but Katherine's response was too good 
so I  pulled it over.
> 
> >> Quote from this interview:
> >> "In the seventh book there will be deaths of both, goodies and
> >> baddies. She was talking to her husband, Neil, the other day, 
after she has just writing the death of one particular character. He
> >> shuddered. "Oh don't do that", he said to me, but of course, I 
> >>did."


Tonks here:

Well let's look at who Harry cares about the most.

Ginny
Ron
Hermione
Hagrid
Molly
Arthur
Lupin
McGonagall

Any and all on this list could be a goner by the end.

At least one Weasley, maybe more will have to go. I fear we will 
have to kill Ron. Isn't his wand core Unicorn? Of course, JKR says 
that the wand cores of the three wands are important, so all three 
(H/R/H) may have to live till the end. On the other hand, Ron could 
be useful on the other side if his wand goes with him? But I don't 
think you get to take your wand there.

The person killed off early could be McGonagall. That would throw 
the school into a spin again. And I think that McGonagall has 
knowledge about DD and Snape that will be lost by her death. She may 
be the only other one to know the truth about Snape and what side he 
is on and why. This way Snape will have to contact Harry himself.  
And with DD, McGonagall and Snape gone from the school, we will have 
lost all of the head persons. The "trinity" as some here have 
pointed out.

My guess is that this is going to be bad, really, really bad. It is
a "war" after all. We have to put Harry in a very bad place 
emotionally. So maybe all of his friends will have to die. Somehow, 
Harry will be all alone. Harry will be suffering a great deal of 
grief
 unbearable grief.

There are others options too: Let's say that Harry is going to live. 
In that case Ron and Hermione will have to die.  If Harry is the one 
to die, maybe Ginny will go with him. This is keeping the shipping 
together.  I don't know if we have to do that, but if there is to be 
a happy ending I think that somehow Ron and Hermione and Harry and 
Ginny have to end up together on the same side of the veil. 

Another guess is that the Dark Lord captures Ron, or maybe Hermione 
and Ginny too.  There again, does Ginny have any important part in 
the end or is her role done?  If the point of Ginny is that Harry is 
giving up everything and eventually his own life, then maybe we are 
done with Ginny and her presence in the last book will be very 
slight.  It all depends on if Harry is going to die or live.  So I 
think we have look at book 7 back to front. 

Bad guys dying:
Draco - This would cause the Malfoys to possible change sides. We
would see sister against sister. And what will happen to Lucius?
He is too rich of a character to let disappear in Azkaban.  Maybe we 
will see that he really does have some "feeling" for his son.  
Certainly the death of Draco would give a lot of fuel to some 
serious action on the Dark side. 

Snape, of course will have to die at some point in the book. I think 
that is a given. I would not expect it early on, however. He is far 
too important to kill off early. 

Could be some minor bad guys killed too.

All in all as death goes, I think that JKR will have to (sad to 
say), top what she has done up to now. That means that book 7 will 
be worse (emotionally) for all of us than any other book up to now. 
And it will have to be far worse for poor Harry. Whether he ends up 
alive or dead in the end, it is going to be a soul wrenching 
experience for us all, and Harry most of all. But somehow, someway, 
she will, by the grace of God, bring it all to a good end. What a 
job!! She has painted herself into a corner here; let's hope that 
she can pull it off.

Tonks_op