'Harry Potter': When will the massacre end?!
Jun 26, 2006, 07:22 PM | by Mickey O'Connor
Categories: Harry Potter
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 the end of book seven, because I always planned seven books and that's where I want to go," the author told Britain's Channel 4. "I can completely understand, however, the mentality of an author who thinks 'Well, I'm going to kill them off because that means there can be no non-author-written sequels ... so it will end with me, and after I'm dead and gone they won't be able 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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