Hagrid

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 165951

Shelley wrote:
> 
> Oh my gosh, you don't think that he could be one of the main
characters who die, do you? Just to illustrate just how badly the war
ends up going before the final showdown? As if Harry doesn't need
another reason to off Voldemort already, I could see the death of one
of his good friends giving Harry the hatred needed to do even the most
unthinkable for him.
>
Carol responds:
Hatred is the last thing Harry needs if he's supposed to defeat
Voldemort through the mysterious power of Love. He needs to get beyond
his hatred of Snape, not feel still more hatred. The theme of the
dangers of revenge pervades the books, and I don't think that Harry is
going in that direction.

Nevertheless, I do think it's likely that Hagrid will die. He has a
role to play yet, something to do with Grawp, possibly, and he's a
source of information for Harry about Snape and about Godric's Hollow.
And if there's a Battle of Hogwarts, as I think there will be, I think
he'll play an important and heroic role. He has more than one grudge
against Voldemort and the Death Eaters, and I think he'll fight to the
death, maybe even being killed by Voldemort himself. Stunners bounce
off him, but an AK won't.

JKR has said that main characters will die, meaning good guys, so it's
likely that Hagrid will be one of them. I think, however, that she
always meant him to die and that he's not one of the two who were
originally slated to live but end up dying. That sounds to me like the
Weasley Twins.

Carol, who figures that Harry has to lose someone important to him and
would rather it be Hagrid (dying bravely) than Ron or Hermione