Happy endings and locked rooms

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 164675

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant107" <eggplant107 at ...>
wrote:
>
> "Geoff Bannister" <gbannister10@> wrote:
>
> > JKR went on record as saying that there
> > are two character deaths in Book 7
>
> Eggplant wrote:
> 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.
>

I don't know about that. I went to the leaky site & this is what they
had to say:
from : http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/#book:7

"During a Dec. 2006 update to her site, she said she is writing
"scenes that have been planned, in some cases, for a dozen years or
even more. I don't think anyone who has not been in a similar
situation can possibly know how this feels: I am alternately elated
and overwrought. I both want, and don't want, to finish this book
(don't worry, I will.)"

Some have interpreted that to mean that she is writing scenes which
are big and important, meaning that she is close to finishing.

J.K. Rowling has also said that at least two people will die, and that
one person that she didn't expect to live has been granted a reprieve."

so, I don't know if book 7 will have "carnage" in it. I expect some
people to die, but mainly the DE's. I don't expect any major
characters (good ones) to die. I think Wormtail will die(life debt to
Harry and all) and I believe Snape is the one that got the reprieve.

I would love the link to the interview where she stated that 2
characters that she wasn't going to kill are now going to die. I've
searched for it and cannot find it and the leaky site is pretty good
about quoting and stuff. Is this just another snopes moment? Either
that, or my googling attempts are pretty lame.  

After all, OotP had a big battle and what happened to the DE's?  They
went to prison - they could have easily been killed off by JKR and no
one would have cared one wit, nor would have it been considered
carnage.  The person to die in that battle was Sirius, which I guess
needed to be done, although I didn't like it, nor do I agree with why
it had to be done.

colebiancardi(not expecting a bloody 7th book, but a haunted one)