Birthday Lists / Re: Who dies in 7?

[hickengruendler]

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> Neri:
 
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> Neville, Harry, Ginny, Percy, Hermione, McGonagall, Flitwick, Molly,
> Bill, Hagrid, Charlie, Snape, Arthur, Ron, Lupin, Fred and George,
> Sprout, Draco, Dobby.
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> (every one from Neville to Snape also came up the second time). 
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> If these are the good guys then both Snape and Lupin are good, but
> does this mean DD is ESE?
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> The theory that these are the characters left alive in the end seems
> slightly more fitting.  

Hickengruendler:

Or it is a mixture of both. The good (or at least not totally evil) 
guys, who are still alive in the end. I think the theory that only 
the most important ones get a greeting is problematic, since this 
doesn't explain Flitwick and Sprout or even Charlie and Bill. Even 
though they are the Heads of Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff or Weasleys, 
neither of them is very important as a character.

I am sure the reason Dumbledore or Sirius did not appear there is 
because they are dead, and it would be slightly morbid to wish a dead 
character a Happy Birthday. On the other hand, I'm not sure that this 
means, that the others will survive. Maybe JKR did not wish those a 
Happy Birthday, whose death she already wrote. I will look out if one 
of the characters on the list suddenly disappears during the next 
year, because IMO that would be a pretty good sign that she wrote 
their deaths. But I also think that the reason some of the characters 
do not get a birthday wish is because they are too evil. Happy 
Birthday Dolores Umbridge or Happy Birthday Lucius Malfoy would be 
slightly odd, even if they survive.

Hickengruendler