Hmmmm... Will Hermione's role be insignificant?

[cubfanbudwoman]

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Siriusly Snapey Susan:
> > 2) Who gets a reprieve at the end of Book 7?
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/surveys?id=2280244

Sridhar asked:
> This is the mid of the week and I am probably dense, but what does 
> question 2 actually mean? Who is the person that JKR originally 
> intended to kill, but may not get killed becos 2 other people not 
> originally to be killed will get killed? (See I told you its mid-
> week!)


SSSusan:
LOL, Sridhar. Good question! 

Truthfully, I don't think JKR said anything which would 
*necessarily* have inserted that "because" between the two parts.  
Not that she might not have been thinking it!  But I know that when 
I read about and then watched the interview, I didn't get the sense 
that the reprieve was because two others will die, but rather that 
it's a separate thing.  

Per BBC News, June 27:

>>> She told the Richard and Judy show that she had long known how 
the series would end, because she had written the last chapter "in 
something like 1990". 

"One character got a reprieve, but I have to say two die that I 
didn't intend to die," she said. <<<

SSSusan again:
So, does that help, Sridhar?  Or just muddy the waters? :-)  Did 
others have the same impression I did, or do you think it is a "This 
and so then this" kind of situation?

Siriusly Snapey Susan