Only TWO Die? No, wait...

[Phyllis]

David wrote:

<<I think JKR's comment about 'hate mail' if she reveals who her 
targets are is weird.>>  

and Pip!Squeak responded:

<<It does suggests the deaths include sympathetic characters, and 
probably at least one of the kids.>>

Based on my reading of the transcript and viewing of the video, I 
saw the 'hate mail' comment as being in response to a question about 
*Harry's* fate specifically.  I thought it was a bit of a slip, for 
who is going to send her hate mail if she announces that Harry 
survives?  But perhaps this is her way of getting us ready for the 
inevitable.  ::Sniff::

My local paper seems to have done a Rita Skeeter and taken her "two 
die that she didn't intend to die" to mean there will be only two 
deaths in the last book.  But her statement doesn't necessarily mean 
there will only be two deaths in the last book (since she's said 
before that there will be more deaths before the series is over, I'm 
thinking this means there are two new ones added to the ones she 
already had planned).  And the answer was in the context of a 
question regarding the last chapter, so characters could die before 
then (ala Sirius and Dumbledore).
 
Frankly, I'd surprised if it's only two, as I expected many more.   

~Phyllis