Rowling Hints Harry Potter Might Die

"Author J.K. Rowling said two characters will die in the last installment of her boy wizard series, and she hinted Harry Potter might not survive either...Rowling declined to commit herself about Harry, saying she doesn't want to receive hate mail."

[eyes roll] Like she's not going to receive hate mail for even hinting she might kill off Harry. Sadly, there are people out there who will do it.

Granted, I don't want Harry to die—heck, I still have the old copy of Podkayne of Mars because I didn't like the idea that Heinlein killed her off and I still like to believe that somewhere Vila and Avon are still alive—but I'm not going off the deep end about it. It's a story, guys.

Any guesses who the "two characters" might be? So far most of the odds on Usenet is that one of them is Snape. I'm thinking that's a good guess, but I'm terrible at predicting things like this. I had a feeling Dumbledore was going to die before the end of the series—that's the archetype in these coming-of-age stories, the lead character's mentor usually dies before the "quest," whatever it is, is over, leaving the young hero to have to finish without guidance.—but it's difficult to predict anything else.

One of the front runners is not quiet, mousy Neville Longbottom, but I'm wondering if he is one of the ones who gets bumped off. We did find out that the prophecy talked about a child born late in July, which could have also been Neville as well as Harry, and while he is still retiring, Neville has grown from that bumbling kid under the thumb of his domineering grandmother. Perhaps Neville discovers that he could have been the child of the prophecy and tries to take on Voldemort?

Maybe we even discover that Neville was the actual child referred to in the prophecy and it was actually him Voldemort should have been going after all along?

So many possibilities...

Just hope they don't kill off Hermione; she's my favorite. :-)

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Then learn to spell her name right.

# posted by  Anonymous : 2:25:00 PM

 

I saw an interview with Rowling today in which she said that she admires authors who kill off their lead characters so no one else can use them. She then cites Agatha Christie killing off Poirot. Bad example because Christie apparently loathed the Poirot character and much preferred Miss Marple, who she didn't kill.

# posted by  Brent McKee : 5:00:00 PM

 

Ooops, typing too fast--transposition error!

Brent: at least she didn't mention Arthur Conan Doyle. :-)

# posted by  Linda : 8:36:00 PM

 

ME i think maybe my favorite the such a doofus Ron. or maybe... snape or the emma thompson lady... or ... maggie's character.... or the uncle and aunt or the loaf of a cousin... maybe he who's name shall not be mentioned and that rat guy.....

# posted by  Anonymous : 8:48:00 PM

 

I don't think of Ron as a doofus; he's just a boy. Harry's had so much thrust on him since he was a baby that he acts so much older. Now the movies, except for the first one, I think do portray Ron as a doofus and I don't like it. He's always making faces or being scared. Annoying.

I got the impression she meant two characters that meant something to the readers. If the Dursleys packed it in, would anyone care?

Peter Pettigrew IS in Harry's debt; he might be a good choice.

# posted by  Linda : 9:22:00 AM

 

I'm afraid they're going to kill Hagrid. He's so loyal; it would be "logical" for him to die protecting one of his friends.

# posted by  Tina : 12:46:00 AM

 

Hagrid and Snape are the front-runners in the guessing, at least based on the little I've read, Hagrid for just the reason you mentioned and Snape because of his double life.

# posted by  Linda : 9:22:00 AM

 

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