The character given the reprieve and the chapter Rowling was weeping over

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No: HPFGUIDX 172431

Because so many of you are wondering and speculating:

(via tlc: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/19935372/)

The reprieve was: Mr. Weasley (in book five), a bit disapointing...
And she cried over the parents and Lupin and Sirius get together...

(My bets were: Hermione and crying over the Prince's tale)

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