JKR borrows from heroic literature/ who dies?

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 154427

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant107" 
<eggplant107 at ...> wrote:
>
> When Rowling said there would be 2 major deaths in the next book I
> think she meant 2 death's we'd grieve over (this being a heroic
> tragedy) so I don't think the number includes Voldemort. Thus the
> obvious 2 with an appointment with death would be Harry and Snape. 

Tonks:
I watched the interview on Mugglenet. She didn't say 2 major deaths. 
She said she spared one person she had planned to kill and killed 2 
that she hadn't planned to killing. This is apparently in addition 
to any others that she had *planned* to kill. And she said that real 
evil goes after the main characters. I don't think that we can put 
those two statements together and get that she is only going to kill 
2 people, and that those people will be main characters. 

I think she will kill more than 2 people. They may or may not be 
major characters. They certainly will be people we know. She might 
lead us on an emotional roller coaster ride like she did in OP, 
without really killing off who we think she is killing. Remember 
Arthur? We all thought he was a goner for sure. I hated JKR for 
about a half hour there.

Since this is a book for children I suspect that the trio and Ginny 
will live. And hopefully Luna and Neville. I think she has killed 
all of the young folks she planned to kill when she killed Cedric. 
She made the statement, IMO, that she wanted to make with his 
death.  Any more would be, pardon me, overkill. 

I think there will be a lot of action. It will look like Harry and 
company is losing. We will be on the edge of our seats, maybe with 
boxes of Kleenex, but when the dust settles, it will end well. Snape 
will be dead, Bella, LV, a house elf or two, and  Firenze. Kreacher 
might even get his head mounted on the wall. Fawkes will return. And 
by the grace of Rowling, everyone else will live long and prosper.

Tonks_op