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Wow, so Harry Potter comes out tonight. I probably won't read it till sometime next week, though. I've been very good about not trying to find spoilers (actually, that's because I'm pretty sure I know what happens, and I just might still be desperately holding out hope that I'm wrong), and I even haven't tried to find any of the "leaked" copy in the oh, ten or so minutes that I've known about it. Yes, I know, I live under a rock, I don't care. This year I have too much of a life to go around trying to find out every detail of the book without ruining it.
Anyway.
As far as these rumors go, Harry doesn't die. He kills Voldemort, lives to tell the tale, and marries Ginny Weasley. The two of them promptly have about seven gajillion kids, and they probably name them all after the three good Marauders, Lily, and Dumbledore. And is it even worth writing that Ron and Hermione get hitched?
List Of People Who Are Definitely Going to Die:
1. Snape. Yeah, I'm under no illusions here. He's the character I'm holding out a dim hope for, but I really don't see how he's gonna survive the next book. For one thing, I like him too damn much, and we all know that my favorite characters die. There have been no exceptions to this rule--not a single one. Anyway, she has it set up so nicely for his death. But of course the circumstances are going to be such that he's completely redeemed in the eyes of the wizarding world, and then everyone is going to feel perfectly awful for thinking he was evil, when really, he was the best among them. I think Snape would like that, don't you? He's got just the right sort of vindictive personality to really enjoy that everyone feels bad about hating him, even though he was a perfectly rotten git.
2. Voldemort. Yeah, duh, right? We knew this.
3. Bellatrix Lestrange. As with Snape, I like her too damn much for her to live through the next book. Plus, Rowling seems to like it when characters get their just desserts, so how on earth could Bellatrix live to see the end of this book? I also wouldn't be surprised if Neville was the one who killed her... but I also wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't. Either way, she's not going to live.
4. Remus and Wormtail. This one's a twofer. I think it would lend the series a nice symmetry if all the "original" gang ended up dead in the end--all four Marauders, Lily, and Snape.
People Who May or May Not Bite the Dust in Book 7:
1. Hagrid. Yeah, I just have a bad feeling about him.
2. Lucius Malfoy. I dunno. I can see him dying at Voldemort's side, but I can also see him getting captured and sentenced to the Dementor's Kiss.
3. Tonks. Since Lupin is a Definite Goner, and she's stupid in love with him for some reason, I can see her getting distraught enough that she does something stupid that gets her killed.
4. A Weasley. Not sure which one. It's not going to be Ginny or Ron, since they are Main Characters as well as Romantic Interests, but there are so damn many Weasleys that I think it's extremely likely that at least one of them will die. And I'm betting it won't be Percy. As long as it's not one of the twins or Molly, I don't really care.
Notice that Draco is not on any of these lists. I'm not entirely sure what is going to happen to him, mostly because I don't really care enough to think about it, but I don't think Rowling is going to kill him off. He might be humiliated beyond belief, and maybe he'll even lose his fortune, but I doubt he's going to die. That would make Harry's life just a little too perfect, right, if all three of his worst enemies died? He needs at least one person to fight with as he grows up! ;P
And that's all I've got. I'm sure a million other people came to the same conclusions as I did. I wonder how it feels to Rowling to have written a series that is so damn predictable? Eh, they're wildly popular, so probably not too bad.
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