Who died that originally wasn't suppose to die.

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Tonia:
Hi there LONG TIME FAN, new member to this site.
This has already been addressed but I could not find it. Jo said that
she reprived the death of one person - we know know that was Arthur
Weasley but who do you think were the two that weren't originally
suppose to die but did.  I think they were Tonks and Lupin - does
anyone know for sure from any interview.


Juli: You are right. Here're the quotes from the Dateline interview ( 
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20026225/ ) Remus (and Tonks) were 
exchanged for Mr Weasley.

"If there's one character I couldn't bear to part with, it's Arthur 
Weasley," Rowling admitted for the first time publicly in an 
interview with TODAY's Meredith Vieira. Hence, in "Phoenix," Mr. 
Weasley survives a snakebite 
 just barely. 

"I think part of the reason for that is there were very few good 
fathers in the book," said Rowling. "In fact, you could make a very 
good case for Arthur Weasley being the only good father in the whole 
series." 

The theme resonates throughout the books with the deaths of Sirius 
Black and Albus Dumbledore, Harry's flawed father figures. And that's 
why, in the Battle of Hogwarts, Remus Lupin, Harry's only remaining 
father figure, and Nymphadora Tonks die, in the process creating 
another orphan in their son, Teddy.

"I think one of the most devastating things about war is the children 
left behind," Rowling said. "As happened in the first war when 
Harry's left behind, I wanted us to see another child left behind. 
And it made it very poignant that it was their newborn son." 

Juli