Who do you think will die in the last book?.

[jmwcfo]

No: HPFGUIDX 168228

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Rebecca Scalf <witherwing at ...> 
wrote:
>
> Witherwing:
> 
> Are the Weasleys, the largest wizard family in sight,
> likely to remain in tact by the end of the war?
> 
> I fear for Molly, partly because of *The Woes of Mrs.
> Weasley" (chapter nine, OotP) - if she is living in
> constant fear of her loved-ones dying, maybe it would
> be kinder to have her die first.
> 
> I hope it is either both of the twins, or neither,
> because facing the rest of one's life without one's
> twin sounds merciless.
> 
> -Witherwing

JW:

The chapter cited above is the foreshadowing that makes me certain 
that at least one Weasley will die.  In fact, if I read the book only 
to learn that all Weasleys survive, I will assume I had been the 
victim of a hoax, and will go out to seek a copy of the REAL book.

Witherwing's (the reader, not the character) reaction to the 
possibility of either Fred or George (not both) not surviving is very 
typical among readers.  I am therefore 90% sure that is how it will 
go down, for the sake of generating maximum drama.

Similarly, no characters should make any long-term loans to Hagrid. 
If RH does survive (low probability imho), it will be because Grawp 
saves him in an act of sacrifice.  More probably, Hagrid's death 
incites Grawp into a rage that results in a significant turning point 
in a siege of Hogwarts, or some other dramatic battle.  Thankfully, 
this will justify the story of Grawp written in OOTP.  Without such 
justification in DH, we might all conclude that JKR should have cut 
that story out and saved a lot of trees (the fictional ones Grawp 
destroyed and the real ones that were killed in printing millions of 
books).

Hagrid's death was foreshadowed by Aragog's funeral scene at Hagrid's 
hut.  I interpret another hint in the quotes from the interview in 
which JKR names the characters with whom she would want to have 
dinner.