Question about casualties and JKR on Today Show (Spoilers)

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JKR said in an interview with the Today Show that the person she changed her
mind on killing was Arthur Weasley (he was supposed to die in Book 5...) but
she didn't say who the two people that she killed who weren't supposed to
die are. Any ideas?
 
I was also thinking the reason she killed off Remus and Tonks was perhaps to
make another moral statement on staying with your kids and maybe that's why
we got FamilyGuyHarry in the epilog. With so many auror families having been
destroyed - Potters, Longbottoms, Lupins, etc. perhaps he realized the auror
life wasn't what he really wanted afterall? 
 
Jo will be on the Today Show and said that she will write an encyclopedia
and will include what the characters did:
 
"The encyclopedia would include back stories of characters she has already
written but had to cut for the sake of narrative arc (“I've said before that
Dean Thomas had a much more interesting history than ever appeared in the
books”), as well as details about the characters who survive “Deathly
Hallows,” characters who continue to live on in Rowling’s mind in a clearly
defined magical world. 

Hogwarts, for example, has a new headmaster (“McGonagall was really getting
on a bit”), and Rowling said she can see Harry going back to give the "odd
talk" on Defense Against the Dark Arts. That class, by the way, is now led
by a permanent professor since Voldemort’s death broke the jinx which didn’t
allow a teacher to remain in the position for more than a year."

The rest is here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19935372/\

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