You knew this was coming. Who will die in the next Harry Potter book

[demiurge1138]

Here's hoping it will be Harry!

Then what, pray tell, would Book Seven be about?

My money's on Hagrid, but Ron is a possibility.
Demiurge out.

 

[frankthedm]

-Otherwise Voldemort would make an obvious candidate.

I so hope it is Voldemort, would be nice to have a diffrent villian for book 7. It would not make much sence, but Mr. V is getting stale.

I would suspect though the turncoat Snape, gets done in by the death eaters. A nice grisly end, befitting a stoolpigeon.

Maybe Malfoy, punk has it coming

Ron i doubt because it would really darken the book. Ron is not that independant and makes a good lesser half for a female like Herm, Potter would fit better to a weaker female.

Herm, a smart foe would off her. Good chance she would stick around as a ghost to [try to] finish her schoolwork.

 

[Wombat]

I'm going to guess that it's Hagrid. I'm sure I'll be wrong, but what the heck.

After the last couple of books, I agree with you. The guy has "MARTYR" tattooed across his forehead...

 

[Umbran]

Here's hoping it will be Harry!

I believe Ms. Rowling has stated that Harry will live through Book 6. He may or may not survive the series, but he'll at least appear alive in the final book.

 

[Darrin Drader]

Then what, pray tell, would Book Seven be about?

Early retirement for J.K. Rowling, and relief for the rest of us.

 

[Uzumaki]

Don't much care, as long as it's not Neville.

 

[Alzrius]

IRon i doubt because it would really darken the book. Ron is not that independant and makes a good lesser half for a female like Herm, Potter would fit better to a weaker female.

This I agree with. I personally think that book V (which I'm rereading now) seems to indicate that Harry is going to end up being together with Luna Lovegood. She wasn't only a kindred spirit, but seemed quite focused (in her own weird way) which made her a nice foil for how emotionally-charged Harry was in the book.

Herm, a smart foe would off her. Good chance she would stick around as a ghost to [try to] finish her schoolwork.

I think you've hit upon something here. Rowling said (or so I heard) that a main character would die. She didn't say that would be the end of them. A ghost is a good way of keeping said character around.

 

[nonamazing]

I think it's going to be Dumbledore. Dumbledore is Harry's last remaining respected authority figure. Despite the fact that Harry is angry at him as of the end of book 5, Dumbledore still remains a source of strength and security for Harry. Dumbledore's death would be the hardest possible thing Harry could have to deal with. And Rowling seems to have a tendancy to try and make things very hard on old Harry.

 

[drothgery]

Assuming Rowling isn't going to defy both fantasy convention and children's/young adult conventions entirely by having Voldermot win, I can't see Dumbledore dying in book 6. The Good Guys would end up way too fractured in the aftermath; no one else has the experience, skill, and temperment to keep Snape, Arthur Weasley, McGonagall, and Harry's band of superkids moving in the same direction.

I'd have to agree with the Hagrid camp, though Rowling's getting a bit bloodthirsty if she's killing off another major character. First Sirius Black, and then Hagrid?

 

[Taelorn76]

Assuming Rowling isn't going to defy both fantasy convention and children's/young adult conventions entirely by having Voldermot win, I can't see Dumbledore dying in book 6. The Good Guys would end up way too fractured in the aftermath; no one else has the experience, skill, and temperment to keep Snape, Arthur Weasley, McGonagall, and Harry's band of superkids moving in the same direction.

Vengence would keep them together and offing Voldermot in his memory.

Also I have always remembered reading that it would be a character, nothing about a main character.