BloodBath in Book 7 Was Re:Who dies in 7?

[lagattalucianese]

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> 
> Antosha:
> 
...
> 
> There's an old truism in war reporting: one death is a tragedy; a
> hundred deaths is a statistic.
> 
> As for the elimination of the Ministry and the Order... well, I 
think
> they've both already been sidelined. The last book is going to focus
> on Harry & Co's struggle against LV and his minions. The Ministry is
> already largely a non-player, and the Order will be up to its 
eyeballs
> off-screen dealing with the kinds of attacks we kept hearing about 
in
> HBP and OotP, while Harry, Ron and Hermione (and possibly, 
eventually,
> Ginny, Neville, Luna, the twins and a few other odd Weasleys and DA
> members) actually do the work of destroying the Horcruxes and
> vanquishing LV.
> 
La Gatta Lucianese:

And statistics are boring. It's an inconvenient habit of people that 
they are much more interesting when they are alive. When they are 
presumed dead, they are only interesting if we can debate endlessly 
over whether they are REALLY dead, and whether the person who killed 
them REALLY killed them, and if he did, does that make him ESE! or 
OFH! or DDM!... ;D I am with you; I think Book 7 will be concerned 
with the doings of HRH and other members of DA hunting down and 
destroying horcruxes, interspersed, perhaps, with tense scenes in the 
DE camp, with baddies offing one another over differences sparked by 
a certain Dark Wizard who REALLY isn't (might we have gotten a 
foretaste of that in "Spinner's End"?), and maybe Harry and said DW 
rescuing each other and burying the hatchet (preferably not in each 
other.
> 
> I still think that any ending that is the equivalent of Dirty!Harry
> standing over LV with his wand pointed at his head, saying, "Do you
> feel lucky, punk?"--in other words, any ending that's simply a 
matter
> of Harry loading up for bear and blowing Voldemort away--is going to
> be unsatisfying. The series seems to be aiming at some sort of 
message
> of love, self-sacrifice and redemption, so macho posturing and alpha
> male dominance a la any Arnold Schwartzenegger movie aren't going to
> ring true.
> 
> But that's me.
> 
> ;-)
>
La Gatta Lucianese:

Hee! Love it! 

Seriously, I can see Harry killing Voldemort out of kindness (see my 
preceding post about this) and I can see Voldemort crawling off to 
live out his days as a powerless, soulless monster, or maybe crawling 
off and being hunted down by a DE in search of vengeance (Draco? 
Lucius? Bellatrix? Oh, heck, let's make it a family picnic and throw 
in Narcissa for good measure; they can all kill each other, and have 
tea and cream cakes for afters...).