Happy endings and locked rooms

[eggplant107]

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"Geoff Bannister" <gbannister10 at ...> wrote:

> JKR went on record as saying that there 
> are two character deaths in Book 7 

No that's not what she said. She was talking about changes in the
original Harry Potter blueprint that she made many years ago, long
before book 1 was even published. In addition to all the original
carnage she had in mind two characters that she had originally let
live she decided to kill and one character she had originally killed
she decided to let live. The net result is we have one more dead body.
I don't really expect it, but for all we know from what she has told
us every character except one dies. Perhaps Harry is the only
survivor, but I wouldn't really count that as a happy ending. 

Eggplant