This just in from our colleagues at The Daily Prophet:
J.K. Rowling reports that not one, but two characters will die in the seventh and final Harry Potter novel, which at this point is scheduled to be released some time before I die. For those keeping score at home, that’s one dead character for each $500 million of Rowling’s net worth. Rowling obviously wouldn’t confirm the doomed ones’ identities, but for Harry’s sake, I hope her thoughts about killing off a main character were just idle chitter-chatter with the pesky press.
"I’ve never been tempted to kill him (Harry) off before theend of book seven, because I always planned seven books andthat’s where I want to go," the author told Britain’s Channel 4. "I can completely understand, however, the mentality of anauthor who thinks ‘Well, I’m going to kill them off becausethat means there can be no non-author-written sequels … so itwill end with me, and after I’m dead and gone they won’t beable to bring back the character’." Gulp.
Me? I’ve always embraced the books’ masochistic tendencies, so I’m putting my money on both Ron and Hermione to bite the eternal Floo powder in Book 7, especially considering what happened to You-Know-Who at the end of Book 6. At the end of the day, Harry is a miserable little boy, and as such, will need other deaths to brood on.
What do all you closet Potter-philes out there think?
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My money’s on Harry and Malfoy. i’d be thrilled if they off’d each other.
Is there actually anyone out there that does not think it will be Harry and Voldemort? Common guys- of course it will be. They are the counterparts of each other; one cannot exist without the other (at least not anymore), just like good and evil cannot exist without the other.
voldmort and someone else, not harry. as for anyone else who tries to tell me it will i will stick my thumbs in my ears and ignore you. it was bad enough when she killed dumbledore.
I agree with Anna, that it will be Harry and Voldemort; I believed that they would both die before I heard this story.
My thinking is harry and herminoe But i must confess i never thought she would off dumbeldore so we may be in for a suprise.I would love to see snipe and malfoy go but that may be a personal vendetta because of dumbledore.
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Well, not really from me, but Amanda below me gave away the death of a character (which Mickey OBVIOUSLY avoided) in “Half Blood Prince” DO NOT READ THE POST BELOW MINE IF YOU HAVEN’T READ HALF BLOOD PRINCE
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i hope its harry. that would just make an awesome story. but she definitley needs to kill more than 2 people.
Voldemort and Snape. The Big Bad has got to go, and while Snape is tortured and twisted- he’s a good guy. I think Snape will die a noble death.
I cannot believe that she will kill Harry. I think that Voldemort will die (he has to in order for the wizarding community to live in some kind of safety/harmony), and the other deaths will be Snape and Pettigrew. I think that Harry will then become the Defence of the Dark Arts teacher and eventually Headmaster. I also think that one of the Weasleys will die (I am hoping it is not Ron).
common guys? Or Come on, guys?
I don’t know who will or really even should die in the series finale, but I do think………..
Dumbledore will return to life a la Fawkes. He is after all a PHEONIX!!!!
The most predictable would be Harry and Voldemort because she already set it up that their lives are linked to each other. I think Snape should die but at the very end with his dying breath he gives the big explanation to all of his actions so then its sad that he has to die. I would be sad if Hermione and/or Ron died. I would be very shocked and sad if Ginny Weasly died after how she finally got Harry and had to lose him at the end of book 6. Ugh. I just want her to finish!
Of course it’s going to be Snape and Voldemort. It’s so painfully obvious that I hope will at least be done in an unexpected way, just like the Book 6 death which blew me off my socks although we could tell it was coming.
My thinking (and this is a little bit out there logically) is that Harry is the last Horcrux (sp) and will therefore have to die so that Voldemort can die. Yes, no?
I’m still one of the few that believes Snape isn’t really evil so I think he will redeem himself in this last book. I think Malfoy will die. As for the other death, who knows. I just hope it isn’t Hermione.