JKR borrows from heroic literature/ who dies?

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 154523

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
>
> 
> I do agree that she'll have no qualms about killing off a kid
> character, but I don't think it will be Neville. I think he's the
> character who ends up teaching at Hogwarts (Herbology, of course). 
And that Mimbulus Mimbletonia will somehow play a role. If the 
birthdays on JKR's site (and the six drops of red, three drops of 
green potion) are any clue, it will be Luna. 

Tonks:

Bit dense. Don't follow this..  how does it follow that it is Luna?  
She is a Ravenclaw.

Are we counting deaths to Gryffindor? Lily, James, Sirius, DD maybe, 
and ???  getting old can't remember anything. Know we talked about 
it before, long ago.

And Slytherin - Regulus, and ??

Is that what you meant by six drops of red and 3 of green? I know 
that is what it took to revive the plant on JKR's website. But I 
don't get the Luna connection.

 
>Carol said: 
> I also think that more than two mainish characters will die (the 
two
> she didn't originally plan on plus those she did). I'm guessing
> Hagrid, Lupin, and at least one Weasley (probably Percy and either
> Bill or Charlie, or possibly the twins--*a* twin would be worse,
> leaving Fred or George without his other half).
> 

Tonks:
Oh.. how heartless and cruel. Kill off one twin?  Carol!! How could 
you! No, no, I simply will not tolerate this!! ;-)

Tonks_op