Who is she talking about?

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No: HPFGUIDX 146369

> kchuplis:
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> You know, I really think poor Neville is just bound to bite it.
Because he is so intricately involved in the prophecy, it just seems a
necessary. I also think the fact that JKR nixed the Neville/Luna thing
and it was pretty obvious that they were forming a bond, he just isn't
going to make it. I only hope he goes usefully and bravely. I kind of
wonder though if somehow LV becomes privy to the fact there was
another baby and in a paranoic fit "just to make sure" and not knowing
the rest of the prophecy, kills poor Neville. That could set up a
pretty pychological gut punch for Harry, as well, in the "it's my
fault again" mode.
> 
> 
Antosha:

You know, while I agree with this, the storyteller in me shrinks from
the idea of Neville buying it. The kid's life has sucked from day one.
Just like Harry, he grew up without parents and, while his grandmother
isn't as bad as the Dursleys, she hasn't exactly been a font of
unqualified affection. He's tortured, teased and has huge self-esteem
problems that he's just coming to grips with. His death wouldn't be a
tragedy, it would be sour and unsatisfying.

Harry's death has the same problem, btw. Same with Ginny, who suffered
at Tom Riddle's hand and hasn't been able to redeem that yet.
Likewise, to a lesser degree, Luna's death would be all the sadness
without any payoff. It'd be simply miserable and nihilistic.

Mind, Sirius's death fairly sucked too. But there was a certain
internal logic to it; it somehow seems worse if it's one of the kids
whose life has been more challenging.

The most logical candidate in my mind: Ron, if you think the chess
game was symbolic. Hermione is another, since at some point, Harry is
going to have to make do without her--just as we all knew that DD was
going down in HBP, since Harry needed to finish things without the DD
cavalry in reserve.

Remus falls into the that-would-just-suck category. Tonks wouldn't
have enough payoff--we barely know her, cool as she was in OotP.
McGonagall is possible, but wouldn't cause widespread weeping, I
think--and it'd be too much like DD's death.

Of the older generation, the logical candidate is the one who has
hardly served a dramatic purpose since GoF: Hagrid. He was Harry's
introduction into the magical world, the threshold guardian, after a
fashion, since he is, after all, the Keeper of Keys, and he is one of
the people that Harry holds dearest. He owes Tom Riddle. You know (or
at least we all hope) that Grawp is going to have some role to play in
book seven (otherwise, please, let's all go and cut him out of the
last two books, shall we?), and I'm sure Norbert will reappear. All of
this makes me think that Hagrid will buy it somewhere around the
middle of book seven--possibly an attack by LV on Hogwarts that pulls
Harry, Ron and Hermione off of their quest and back into what was once
their real world, and back into the company of the Second Trio:
Neville, Luna and Ginny.....

Well, I could spin that theory out for a while, but I'll do my Fermat
routine and just say, Work it out for yourself. XD

The point is that it wouldn't surprise me if Hagrid--or one of the
Trio besides Harry--drops by the wayside midway through the book.