Happy endings and locked rooms

[wynnleaf]

No: HPFGUIDX 164680


> >
> > "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. 
> >
> colebiancardi
> 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."


wynnleaf
Alright, time to quote exactly what JKR said about the 2 character deaths.

>From An Evening With Harrie, Carrie, and Garp, at Radio City Music
Hall on Aug. 1, 2006:

Audience member question (paraphrased): "Have there been any changes
to what you initially planned out?"

Rowling: "It is different to an extent. The essential plot is what I
always planned when working toward the end I've planned toward the
beginning. But a couple of characters I expected to survive have died
and one character got a reprieve, so there have been some fairly major
changes I suppose."

wynnleaf
I think we can assume that in her original plans, there were already
some deaths planned -- obviously, or one character would have no
"reprieve."  But two characters who she originally expected to survive
-- characters who were not among the characters she had originally
planned to die -- have now died in DH.  That means two *additional*
characters from the ones she already planned.  The "reprieve" would
mean one originally planned for death won't die.  

Unless she only originally planned only one death, and that character
got a reprieve, it sounds to me that most likely more than two
characters die in DH.

wynnleaf