Deathly Hallows - who's going to die?

[purple_kathryn]

I'd say Snape definitely

and I'm thinking McGonagle (but then who'd be headmistress/master of hogwarts?) or possibly Hagrid.

Definitely not one of the trio and I dont see Tonks or Remus dying when they've got this romance going.

I'm looking at from the POV that the books are aimed at young adults and I dont see her going for the really dark ending.

[Majimaune]

Thanks for the link The Pelagic Argosy. It is very interesting.

How could I? Every year of his adolescence and childhood he saved the wizarding world and then no-one believes him - he spends his entire life saving the world, and next term he is back at school being bullied.

That is from the same link. It is interesting because she is implying that she will not kill off Harry. Who else thinks that?

[The Pelagic Argosy]

Originally Posted by Majimaune

That is from the same link. It is interesting because she is implying that she will not kill off Harry. Who else thinks that?

Nah. Then she goes on to talk about Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie killed off their main characters, and that she "understands." I say it's still up in the air.

[Majimaune]

She implies and then contradicts. She will never reveal.

[Balinor]

1 character gets a reprive - I think this will be Dumbledore (the snape thing will turn out to have been a setup or something) which would mean Snape was a good guy (as Dumbledore insisted).

2 Characters die - Snape as he turns out to be the shunned lonely misunderstood guy will die and then one of the 3 (Harry/Hermionie/Ron) probably Harry.

[mirinda]

Difficult J.K is a tricky author to pin down i'd have to say either Harry dies or Wormtail dies protecting him.

[MyDeathSymphony]

Eh, Wormtail does seem like a semi-important person, but I'm leaning more towards Snape, Malfoys and such.

[PTeppic]

Maybe Snape's the repreive? Or Wormtail? Or McGonagal?

With the kids as the ones who actually die?

[HBP]

I definately belive Wormtail is the reprive. He missed death in POA and now he will willingly accept it, as Dumbledore always express that wormtail is in harrys debt. I am unsure as to whether he payed it off. My heart goes out for harry and his friends. If voldemort can't get his hands on harry then he will resort to use someone close to harry as bait, just like he did with sirius in Ootp.

[HBP]

Probably this is not the best thread for what i am about to say but since it concerns death i will............... there's something so fishy about Dumbledores death. Dumbledore was always so convinced that death is olny another journey and yet upon his, he begs for mercy. I think he was actually begging snape to go out with there plan.

I believe that Dumbledore and Snape planned the entire thing from the curse of the ring to the death of Dumbledore. It is a theory of mine that they were trying to thwart the death curse which resulted in the injury on dumbledores hand. They became succesful in the end as Dumbledore wanted to be removed from the spotlight. For a feasible reason as why he would want to do this is certainly not clear to me.......probably it is a means to do undercover search for the rest of the horcruxes.

[Majimaune]

That is a very strange thing HPB and I have never heard it before. I am convinced though, no matter what is said, that Dumbledore died...unless he had a double or something. Good theory though.

[Commonmind]

Originally Posted by HBP

Probably this is not the best thread for what i am about to say but since it concerns death i will............... there's something so fishy about Dumbledores death. Dumbledore was always so convinced that death is olny another journey and yet upon his, he begs for mercy. I think he was actually begging snape to go out with there plan.

I believe that Dumbledore and Snape planned the entire thing from the curse of the ring to the death of Dumbledore. It is a theory of mine that they were trying to thwart the death curse which resulted in the injury on dumbledores hand. They became succesful in the end as Dumbledore wanted to be removed from the spotlight. For a feasible reason as why he would want to do this is certainly not clear to me.......probably it is a means to do undercover search for the rest of the horcruxes.

I have the same theory...

http://www.chronicles-network.com/fo...d-what-we.html

[Leisha]

I'm with Maji on this one. Dumbldore knew he was going to die, and he knew Harry needed to face the coming battle on his own. So Dumbledore was simply pleading for Snape to do the right thing and end his life like they'd agreed. In those few seconds he probably telepathically told Snape to kill him, thus allowing Snape to fulfil his Unbreakable Vow, saving both Draco and Snape. I think Dumbledore was sacrificing himself for the greater good; in fact, he was old, he'd lived his life, so he was allowing the younger men to survive, since there was no other way out of the Unbreakable Vow.

No, I think Harry's blood will somehow save the day in book 7.

[Majimaune]

Yeah it is up to Harry himslef to save the day. In What you were saying before HPB about Dumbledore pleading and then going back to the thing where he says it is just another great adventure to die I can't remember that in any of the books but it is in LotR. Gandalf says it all.

[HoopyFrood]

In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, when Harry is incredulous that Nicholas Flamel's just going to die after destroying the stone, Dumbledore says something like "To the organised (?) mind, death is but the next great adventure".

Yeah...OK...I'm pretty clued up on the first three or four books. It's just the last two that I haven't liked and therefore try to forget