If you’re the type of person who went to Return of the Jedi expecting that it would end with Luke impaled on Darth Vader’s light saber or turning to the Dark Side and walking off arm in arm with the Emperor, then you’re likely to believe that there’s a real possibility that J.K. Rowling is going to end her next book by killing off Harry Potter.
Rowling has been cagily telling people that at least two important characters die. Only two? That seems like a very low body count, considering the dark and violent way her story has been developing. Voldemort will very likely get his at last. But only one other character’s going to bite the dust?
Frankly, I don't think Rowling will kill off Harry, for reasons of good storytelling and sound business practices, and I don't believe Steven King and John Irving really think she will either. I think they're just joining in the fun of speculating and helping a colleague hype her next book.
The analogy to Arthur Conan Doyle pushing Sherlock Holmes over Reichenbach Falls is specious too.
Doyle was sick to death of Holmes. He made no secret of that. He thought the whole Holmes phenomenon was distracting readers from what he regarded as his serious writing.
I haven't heard that Rowling is tired of Harry. She's ready for the Hogwarts chronicle to end, but that ending has been planned from the beginning. Knowing when a story is done and it's time to walk away is a sign of good writer. But because Rowling is ready to conclude this series doesn't mean she's ready to kill Harry too, or even that she's done with him as a character
Maybe she is. And maybe she's gutsy (or perverse) enough to disappoint thousands and thousands of her young readers. But I doubt it. She doesn't need to kill Harry. I mean from a purely storytelling point of view, Harry's death is unnecessary and even wrong, artistically. It would disfigure the tale.
It would be untrue to her own vision.
If characters are going to die, they will be characters whose deaths will serve Rowling's artistic purposes.
My money is on the hapless Neville Longbottom, who I think has earned a hero’s death and needs one to save him from being left a mere double to the coward and traitor Peter Pettigrew. And, structurally and symbolically, Hagrid’s story has no foreseeable ending except an unhappy one. Hagrid is an interrupted character. His expulsion from Hogwarts and his sad career as a hanger-on and wizard wannabe, plus his outsiderness, mark him as a doomed figure from the moment he appears in The Sorcerer's Stone. It would be fitting too if he enters the books delivering Harry to Hogwarts and leaves it saving Harry, one more time, thus delivering him to the world outside the school.
There are plenty of secondary characters around for Rowling to knock off, and she seems to regard all her characters as important. I never thought much of Sirius Black as a character. He’s in the shadows all through Prisoner of Azkaban and acts as nothing more than an offstage chorus in Goblet of Fire, so he's not been much of a felt presence and when he buys it in Order of the Phoenix he’s not a loss to the story. But it upset Rowling to kill him and, apparently, her own decision to do it took her by surprise.
Harry’s girlfriend, Cho, any of the surviving members of the Order of the Phoenix, Professor McGonagall, either of the two heroic Weasley brothers—Bill or Charlie—not to mention the despicable Percy, are all expendable.
She won’t kill Ron because then she’d have to kill Hermione too, as their two fates have become intertwined, and Fred and George are the kind of comic characters who have been invulnerable since the dawn of storytelling.
And, as she showed in Goblet of Fire, Rowling is capable of introducing a character, building him up, and making us like him, only to kill him. It’s possible that the two characters she’s talking about haven’t appeared in the series yet.
Whichever character it is, it will be someone who needs to die in order for the plot to advance. Sirius Black and the important character who dies in The Half-Blood Prince had to be taken out of the books because, in order for Harry’s final confrontation with Voldemort to matter, Harry has to go into it with no help.
There cannot be any characters around who could save him from Voldemort or who can take on Voldemort if Harry fails.
This, by the way, is the only reason why it could actually be Harry who dies. I can’t think of a character who’s left who presents a serious threat to Voldemort or who could really be of help to him in his last battle, and that leaves him kind of exposed.
Since I really doubt that she will kill Harry, for a couple of reasons I’ll get to, then I think it will be characters whose deaths would serve another, important narrative purpose.
Rowling is a first rate storyteller, whatever you think of her prose style or of the stories she’s chosen to tell, and I happen to think highly of both. She doesn’t do anything gratuitously. Everything she writes serves to move the story along and develop her themes.
She is not the kind of sentimentalist hack who kills off characters just to make readers cry or give her hero a reason to seek vengeance. And she doesn’t have to prove that her villain is evil. She may have to prove that some secondary villain is worse than we knew before, in which case Ron and Hermione may be in trouble.
But I’d still bet on Hagrid and Neville because their deaths would end their stories satisfactorily and, if they are killed by that secondary villain, their deaths would serve the purpose of proving that villain’s villainy without doubt.
Meanwhile, nothing that Rowling’s said, that I’ve read, implies that the characters who die must be good guys. She’s only described them as characters she expected to survive. So she could be knocking off a couple of her villains.
Peter Pettigrew should get stomped just for being annoying and disgusting and for making us look at Timothy Spall’s false teeth in the movies.
Whether or not Rowling will let Hermione’s cat devour him or decide that’s just a little bit too macabre is the question.
There’d be no real satisfaction in watching Crabbe or Goyle get it, unless they are going to suddenly mature into more than a pair of comic thugs.
And Draco Malfoy is merely a simpering pest and his death would give the audience only a minor thrill.
But his father!
Lucius Malfoy is a villain worth watching get his just comeuppance.
For that reason, though, I hope Rowling leaves him alive at the end of the book.
I think he’s the character she should build any future Harry Potter stories around.
In fact, to my mind, Malfoy has been the true villain of the stories. Smooth, attractive, intelligent, charismatic, vicious but self-controlled and patient, he's what a good villain ought to be---persuasive. The audience ought to sympathize at some level with a villain's goals. Plus, Malfoy's been a real threat to Dumbledore. Voldemort can't make any move against Dumbledore except a face to face attack, and since Dumbledore is the more powerful wizard, the outcome of that one is never in doubt. But Malfoy has been able to get the better of Dumbledore because he can outmaneuver him and undermine him politically.
Voldemort isn’t a character, anyway, he’s a force. He’s the incarnation of Death, as his name implies. He wants nothing, he has no motivations. He appears to be after power, but that’s just a plot device. Power is meaningless for him. His rule simply means death for anyone who opposes him. He gains nothing by it.
Voldemort hates Harry and wants to destroy him simply because Harry can destroy him.
In a way, Voldemort only exists to kill Harry.
A good villain sees the hero as an obstacle not his be-all and end-all. Killing the hero may be fun, it may satisfy a thirst for vengeance or give the villain a sadistic thrill, but if all he wants is for the hero to die, then his movements within the plot are severely restricted. He can only move in response to the hero.
And if the hero is only responding to the villain as a personal threat, then his movements are equally limited. He can only go in two directions, towards or away from the villain. There’s more to a story in which the hero is spending all his time running away, but that would be a very different hero from Harry Potter. The hero’s only other choice is to stand still and wait for the villain to come to him, which is what Harry’s mostly been doing and consequently the weakest aspect of Rowling’s story has been what ought to have been its driving force, the struggle between Harry and Tom Riddle.
But when the villain has actual plans that don’t involve the hero then both the hero and the villain have many options. The hero, always reacting, has to set out to thwart the villain’s plans, but doing so doesn’t have to mean chasing after the villain. It may mean heading him off at the pass or arriving on the scene after the villain’s left it in order to clean up the mess or it may mean going off on a wild tangent, chasing after someone or something vital to the villain’s success that the villain himself has overlooked or thought hidden safely away.
The villain, meanwhile, freed from having to pursue the hero, can go wherever he likes, following the scheme he’s laid out for himself. The only thought he needs to give the hero is how to throw him off the track.
It’s always more fun when the hero and villain have to out-think and not simply out-fight each other. Harry has never had to think much about what Voldemort’s up to. Voldemort’s superior power has meant that he’s never had to think about how to defeat Harry. It’s enough to confront him. And Harry has survived their encounters not by outsmarting Voldemort, but by being lucky and by having divine intervention at crucial moments.
But he and Lucius Malfoy have had enough run-ins that have resulted in intellectual jousting to suggest that once Harry is old enough that he’s not intimidated by adults or his own good manners he will be up to the challenge of a villain he has to outwit instead of out-fight.
And as Malfoy and he are evenly matched in magic, with Harry even having the edge, Malfoy has to deal with Harry carefully and his only hope for defeating him is in trying to out-think Harry as Harry is trying to out-think him.
This is a long way round to a big reason why I don’t think Rowling will kill Harry. His story’s not over.
The whole Hogwarts chronicle has been the story of an apprenticeship.
At the end of the next book, Harry will have only, finally, reached the point of being a hero in his own right.
In other words, killing Harry at that point would be like killing Arthur just as he pulls the sword from the stone.
Besides this being bad story telling, it would be bad business. Rowling may be done with Harry and his friends for now. And she might be done with writing. But I doubt it. Leaving Harry alive and kicking saves him for a rainy day somewhere down the line.
It’s bad business in another way too.
Fans who started reading the books with the publication of The Sorcerer’s Stone when they were 10 might be ready at 20 to give up Harry and see him go.
But those aren’t Harry’s only fans. He picks up new ones everyday. And a 10 year old who is starting Sorcerer’s Stone just in time to hear that Harry dies at the end of the series might have a hard time moving on to Chamber of Secrets. What’s the point?
Ten year olds need their heroes to live and succeed.
When you’re in college you can enjoy the spectacle of life’s unfairness and the fact that the villains often win.
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Rowling has also said that one of her characters has been given an unexpected reprieve.
Reprieves are usually given to the justly condemned about to suffer punishment for their crimes.
The only character that would seem to describe is Snape.
I hope it's Snape. I'd like to see him survive to become part of that Harry versus Malfoy story I hope Rowling tackles someday.
Snape would make a nice, dark, untrustworthy Obi-wan to Harry's angrier, more conflicted Luke, don't you think?
I adore Snape and I certainly hope he survives. He and Harry are inextricably linked - I don't for a minute believe Snape was doing anything but acting on orders at the end of the most recent episode.
He's an excellent character - hampered by the pain of his own adolescence, small in many ways, but so far - given that my belief is true - acting for good.
The essence of Snape for me is the scene in the first book (second?) where he is working to save Harry during the Quiddich match despite his loathing for him.
They have a lot to teach each other, I think - Harry's dad *was* a bit of a bully where Snape was concerned (those scenes of stolen memory I found quite harrowing) and Harry can't grow up until he sees his parents outside the prism of hero worship and grief, but neither is Harry what Snape has seen him as. And Snape has a thing or two to get past if he would become great as well.
And agreed - L. Malfoy is far more interesting as a villain. He acts from motive, not essence and that makes him infinitely more despicable.
Posted by: Juno | Wednesday, August 02, 2006 at 02:08 PM
This is one of those posts where most commeneters will be just awed and will remain silent. Such erudition. No angle left uninvestigated. Nothing to add.
Posted by: coturnix | Wednesday, August 02, 2006 at 10:11 PM
Editor's note: If you haven't read The Half Blood Prince yet, be warned: This comment contains some plot spoilers.
[Yes, two major characters die. But what constitutes major? I wouldn't say that any of the Malfoys do, nor even Neville. Nor Percy]
I'm sorry, I don't agree with you about Draco Malfoy. I think the way he hesistated to kill Dumbledore and the fact that he expressed true fear about the peril to his family suggests that he is redeemable. And he's too young to take on the Darth Vader sacrificing himself for the greater good aspect. I'm personally hoping that will be Percy's fate. He'll end up finally defending his family and saving them but dying himself. I mean really, the best he could hope for if he survived would be eternal torment from Fred & George, and just generally being a prat. He can be a tragic hero if he saves someone while dying.
Lucius Malfoy will end up in prison. That's all.
And I don't think that Neville will die. I know it's possible, and I did consider it, although he's been improving so much lately - really finding himself, that I don't think that it makes sense to sacrifice him (in fact, I'm still putting a bit of weight into the idea that he's the 'real' Chosen One and he'll be the one that kills Voldemort). Luna, maybe, since she's looking forward to seeing her mom again.
It never occurred to me that Crookshanks might get Pettigrew. Thank you for that. I'm very pleased with that as a conclusion. However, we know that Pettigrew must also pull some sort of a Darth Vader based on the comment about how having someone owe you their life is never useless. Harry spared him. Somehow, something will happen that will make Pettigrew help Harry.
I am a bit more with you on the reprieve & Snape. He was the only one I could think of at first. Again, the ol' Darth Vader - good yet bad guy redeeming himself on his deathbed. However, I have to revise that somewhat given the fact that it was so clear in the 6th book that Snape was acting on Dumbledore's orders to kill him (to Snape's displeasure) - Snape isn't a triple agent, he's just a double agent and he hasn't been on the wrong side since Dumbledore accepted him back into the fold.
My suspicion of the 'reprieve' is Hagrid. Not only have most of the people I've read or talked to about this thought that Hagrid was a goner as the tragic 'interrupted' hero, but the fact that he has a potential future romantic life with the Half-Giantess as well as the new family in Grawp means that he can be fully redeemed. I don't think he needs to be the death. I think he's who she expected to kill off, but.. partly due to the brilliance of Robbie Coltrane (I don't accept that watching her stories made 'flesh' couldn't have an effect on how they turn out) as well as the fact that people seem less horrified by the Giants in later books (I think he was fated to die originally because he was a misfit as well as an orphan) means that he's just too popular. Whether she intended to or not, she's now writing for film as well, and that makes a difference.
So. My feelings (and why on earth isn't there a betting site on this yet??) are:
Dead:
- Luna
- Percy
- Pettigrew
- Snape
(not counting Voldemort of course)
Reprieved (potentially)
- Hagrid (first choice)
- Snape (second choice)
Wedded (or equivalent)
- Harry/Ginny
- Ron/Hermione
- Hagrid/Olympe
- Neville/Luna (if they're not both dead)
AND.. why have I not seen anything about who it was who took the locket Horcrux?
Was it just too obvious? R.A.B.? C'mon.. no one has mentioned Regulus Black yet... Harry's new surrogate godfather - ex-death-eater.. the one who'll explain to Harry that yes, Snape really *was* on the right side?
(man, apparently I really need a hobby or something. Sorry for the rant...)
Posted by: Kara | Wednesday, August 02, 2006 at 10:36 PM
I agree, Lance, Rowling IS a first rate story teller. I have a friend who has amused, amazed and entertained me over the years with his story telling talent.
It's a gift.
Posted by: Likeable Friend | Wednesday, August 02, 2006 at 11:35 PM
Outstanding, Lance. And I say this having never touched the Rowling books in my "To Read" Pile. The one that fills my "To Read" Garage and will soon grow into a "To Read" Empty ICBM Silo.
Anyway, always enjoy the posts on storytelling.
Posted by: KC45s | Wednesday, August 02, 2006 at 11:44 PM
I agree with what you said about Hogwarts being Harry's sort of apprenticeship. Mugglenet, which is one of, if not the most popular Harry fansite, had a vote on who's going to get a reprive (i forget how it turned out) and both Mugglenet and the Leaky Couldron talked to people who gave them percentages on who would die or who wouldn't. If only two people are going to die, one will be Voldemort. I think that Voldie is almost definately going to get a cut. Although, again, I do like Lucius better as a vilian.
As for the horcruxes, this could indicate that Voldemort might not be killed after all, but may just be reduced to the smallest bit of a soul once more. Perhaps this time, however, it'll be smaller yet. But really, I don't think Voldemort will ever be gone for good, even if he is killed. Also- about the R.A.B. and the locket. I personally hope that is is Regulus, even though everyone thinks that is so obvious. If it is Sirius Black's younger brother, then Sirius will come back as well- at least in passing mention. He was my favorite character and i was sad to see him go. But as for the initials R.A.B- everyone, upon reading it, speculated almsot immidately that it was Regulus A. Black. However, this sudden and obvious speculation made them re-think it as it did seem so obvious. ('They' being various fans.) Many of my friends wondered why Harry didn't think of it, but, in my opinion, it would have been unrealistic if he did. Who would, in real life, recall someone named Regulus Black, who had a family member whose name started with A and so therefore could be named for him as well and was in league with Voldemort etc. etc. etc...?? Some other people i know speculate that Remus Lupin could be set for death.....Although, this was mostly because two of the marauders are dead. Which isn't much of a reason to kill off all of them. Hm.. I don't know, i haven't thought a lot into HP theories and death theories lately, actualy. lol. Anyway. And the way the 7th book appears to the readers to be planned out at this point, to me, seems dull. She's a good writer, however, and might be able to pull it off. I just don't see much in a plot in which Harry spends all his time going to get a Horcrux, finding it, destroying it, getting another one, going thru the various obstacles guarding it, and destroy it, and continuing for all the remaining horcruxes. It'd seem a tad repetetive, and rather like the obstacles guarding the stone in the first book. That might tie together the first and last book, but they're fine when they're all in a chapter or two. When they and only they make up an entire book.... eh. I predict and hope, however, that the book will be more interesting than that.
Posted by: Violet Mannion | Thursday, August 03, 2006 at 01:06 AM
Snape would make a nice, dark, untrustworthy Obi-wan to Harry's angrier, more conflicted Luke, don't you think?
I totatlly agree with you (and Juno, but she and I have briefly discussed this before).
In the past two weeks I've re-watched the 3rd and 4th movies and I'm itching to dig out the books and re-read them. My memory is always fuzzy to back plot when I start one of the new volumes. I want to be prepared for this one.
Great post.
Posted by: Claire | Thursday, August 03, 2006 at 10:36 AM
She is not the kind of sentimentalist hack who kills off characters just to make readers cry or give her hero a reason to seek vengeance.
On the other hand, since I agree that Snape was acting on orders, it has occurred to me to wonder if the character who died at the end of the latest didn't kill himself off to give her hero a reason to seek vengeance.
After all, he made an awfully strong point of Voldemort's actions creating a vengeful opponent in Harry.
Not that I think he's going to stay dead.
Bit of a manipulator, that character.
Posted by: julia | Friday, August 04, 2006 at 08:12 PM
Personally, I wanted Harry to die at the end of the sixth book.
Ron and Hermoine pulling out the stops and beating Voldemort despite the despair that would ensue would have made for a truly spectacular finish, if one which violated the whole "Hero" myth cycle.
Posted by: Phoenician in a time of Romans | Monday, August 07, 2006 at 03:42 AM
Coturnix: This is one of those posts where most commeneters will be just awed and will remain silent. Such erudition. No angle left uninvestigated. Nothing to add.
Thanks, guy, but it looks like you're wrong, and a good thing too. Lots of good comments here.
Phoenician, it's not just the Hero myth Rowland would have to violate; she'd have to deviate too far from the narrarational style of all the other books---all along she's stuck pretty much to a third person limited point of view. We've seen the whole story through Harry's eyes.
I suppose in a magic world Harry can watch and describe his own death, but Rowland has also been pretty faithful to the idea that dead is dead. Harry's parents aren't ghosts; they are avatars of his own imagination or visitors from the past. To suddenly shift points of view from Harry's to Ron's and Hermione's would make the last book so out of keeping with the first six that I think it wouldn't feel like part of the same series. It would be like the first Star Trek movie or one of those "Jane Austen" novels written about her characters by contemporary writers.
Julia: it has occurred to me to wonder if the character who died at the end of the latest didn't kill himself off to give her hero a reason to seek vengeance.
I thought it was an attempt to trick the Death Eaters that went horribly wrong.
Kara: apparently I really need a hobby or something. Sorry for the rant...
You and me both, Kara. But never apologize for a long comment. We love them here at Mannionville. I'm afraid, though, that everything you've said about Hagrid and Neville has convinced me even more that they're not going to get their happy endings, they just have more to lose---they're doomed.
Posted by: Lance | Monday, August 07, 2006 at 08:54 AM
Regulus Black was reported dead. That makes him much less likely to be Harry's new mentor. To be sure, 'reported dead' isn't the same as 'saw the body'.
I don't think the Half Blood Prince will die, either. It is believable that he'd sacrifice himself, though.
I still haven't given up the idea that Neville kills Voldemort. He wants to be involved.
I'm hoping for some real character development for Draco. He just might see that a future with Voldemort is death, for Voldemort's followers and enemies alike. He might even help Harry. The reason that i'd like to see some character for Draco is that he has so little. He seems incompetent, lazy, bossy, prejudiced, arrogant and with little vision.
He's been set up at Harry's rival, but not very well. About the only thing Draco is, is a little clever, here and there.
What about the Chocolate frog cards? There are lots of pictures of Dumbledore out there. They should still be important.
Who's going to die? I'd guess someone from the Order. Maybe Minerva.
What happens after book seven? I'd read about Hermione's charge to free the house elves. I'd read a short adventure about Charlie seeking gold at a shipwreck. I'd read where Dumbledore, works to discover 12 uses of Dragon's blood. A 12 book series?
Posted by: Stephen Uitti | Monday, August 07, 2006 at 02:08 PM
I disagree about the potential of Lucius as an adversary. Some of the richest villains are failed (not in the sense of not studying for the SATs hard enough) heroes: think of the original, Lucifer. Darth Vader. Mordred. Lex Luthor. Sasaki Kojiro. Voldemort is a failed hero -- an orphan, containing secret powers, discovered by a wise old man, summoned to larger world. Lucius is a collaborator of the aristocratic sort, but one might as well make an epic villain of Vidkun Quisling.
Posted by: Rasselas | Monday, August 07, 2006 at 08:57 PM
Rasselas, I hadn't thought of that. I was thinking more about how they've come across in the books (and movies) than about their actual roles in the stories and their mythic shadows. Good points. But it's Tom Riddle who's interesting as the failed-hero, not Voldemort. Here's a question for more knowledgeable Potterists than I am: Has Rowling every suggested that Riddle had any rivals back when he was being drawn to the Dark Arts? Dumbledore, even all that time ago, was still too old to be an Obi-wan to Riddle's Anakin.
Posted by: Lance | Tuesday, August 08, 2006 at 02:25 PM
Pre-emptive Note: If you haven't read The Half Blood Prince yet, be warned: This comment contains plot spoilers.
I don't count Voldemort as a character, so his death shouldn't be one of the two. That is, we have heard a lot about Tom Riddle, but Lord Voldemort has never been anything other than a macguffin. We're not invested in him.
You've severely understated the value of Neville Longbottom (double-check OoP), even though I suspect you're correct that the other 31 July baby will die tying to save Harry and or Others--though that role could be filled well by Draco, op cit. the ending of The Black Cauldron (the book not the Disney abomination).
I'm with Juno on Snape, but I wouldn't be surprised if he just got the reprieve for which I sacrificed Neville above.
[HBP Plot Point in next 'graf]If we believe Ron and Hermione are MFEO, and if you concede that killing Ginny--in what world is Cho Harry's girl friend?; that attempt failed miserably early in OoP, iirc--would be pointless except as lagniappe (op cit. the end of Young Sherlock Holmes), then there really isn't a Weasley to kill. (Percy isn't a major character--he's a tic who has clearly been a member of the Dark Side from his LONG relationship with Peter effing Pettigrew.
The actor playing Lucius Malfoy is more interesting than Lucius in the books, unfortunately.
If we're assuming the guy who died in HBP is really dead--I'm not, because (1) I'm paranoid and (2) the entire book can be read as being about Spells that are not Said Aloud--then, yes, s/he's likely to cost Hagrid his life.
Were I betting with house money, I would be short Hagrid, short Longbottom but owning a call option, and own a put option on Draco--possibly at the hands of his father. I'd probably buy an option to buy a put on Snape, but that's as far as that goes unless my wife's claim since the second book--that the person who died in HBP is going to turn out to be a Voldemort supporter--turns out to be accurate, in which case Snape gets the Longbottom role.
[WARNING: HBP spoilers to end of comment]But that all assumes that something happens at Bill & Fleur's wedding to make Harry go back for his seventh year at Hogwarts.
And, finally, if Regulus Black is dead then how did he sign the note at the end of HBP?
Posted by: Ken Houghton | Tuesday, August 08, 2006 at 05:23 PM
By the way, there has never been any indication in the books--actually, rather the opposite--that Voldemort had any true rival other than Albus Dumbledore. He worked with those who thought they were his equal, but he destroyed or co-opted all of them. (Think Don Corleone--or, more aptly, Pacino at the end of G II.)
Posted by: Ken Houghton | Tuesday, August 08, 2006 at 05:27 PM
Personally, I will be slightly annoyed if Draco has a miraculous redemption. He would have to do something really brave and loyal- and what do people think about all of JK's confusing quotes? i.e. 'Whetever he looks like, Draco is not a nice man' contrasted with 'I felt sorry for Draco.' What the hell? I'm sorry. I have strong opinions and beliefs, and my fear is that all of them are going to be shattered in book seven.
However, I have been a fan of H.P. for nearly five years, and so I will really try hard to accept things. I am preparing myself for the worst regarding Draco. I so want him to be just as nasty as he was before, and maybe go out of his way to try and kill Harry, but I know that won't happen!! (Although, I did read an interesting essay about him, regarding that Draco was not afraid of killing the headmaster, but only scared of death itself.) Intriguing, eh?? Nah, honestly? I don't mind what happens. They're only books, after all!! lol. :)
No, I have gone on to long.
I must stop.
I'm actually at college, and should be doing some work!! Lol!
Anyway, aside from my feelings about Draco- I honestly don't mind what happens! I really really hope Harry doesn't die, or Ron, or poor Neville. He's had enough grief in his life.
As for Lucius. There is no doubt in my mind that he is completely unredeemable. I think. lol.
Whatever my silly beliefs, rest assured, 'Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows' will be a interesting, engaging read- and I will hopefully continue with my fanfics. Anyone interested? Visit www.harrypotterfanfiction.com. My pen-name is Snitchsista!!
Rachel xx
Posted by: Rachel | Wednesday, January 03, 2007 at 08:58 AM
Blonde Guy...Voldemort! It's a stretch, but why did voldemort not play a big role in the end of the sixth book. Dumbledore will not come back to life, but will speak to them from beyond, and will still be a mentor for Harry. Harry may not die, cause everyone expects it and when has she ever not surprised us. RESPECT!!!
Posted by: Josh Herman | Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 10:42 PM