death of harry potter?

I didn't watch it, but it probably has something to do with Rowling announcing that two people will be dying in the next book.

Originally Posted by J.K. Rowling

The final chapter is hidden away although it's now changed very slightly. One character got a reprieve. But I have to say two die that I didn't intend to die," Rowling said.

"A price has to be paid, we are dealing with pure evil here. They don't target extras, do they? They go for the main characters -- well, I do."

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Jam it back in, in the dark.

It was changed because it was throught that no one in the United States would understand exactly what the Philosopher's Stone was.

And about the deaths.

I seriously doubt that the announcement has anything to do with Harry/Voldemort dying at the end. I has been obvious since the prophecy at the end of Order of the Phoenix that one of them would have to kill the other. Also, I do not believe that she is referring to the possible deaths of Ron and/or Hermione as well. If I recall correctly from the article, Rowling said that "two people die who I had not originally planned on." or something to that extent. She says she has had the ending of the final book written for fifteen years. If one of the very main characters, i.e. Harry/Ron/Hermione/voldemort, is to die at the end of the book, it would most likely have been planned from the very beginning and would not pertain to this situation.

I don't think it will be someone who is so essential to the storyline, either. I think people such as Snape or Hagrid are too close to the central storyline to just kill off without having it planned before hand.

If I would have to venture a guess, I would have to say it would be one of the well known, but less important characters.
-A member of the Order of the Phoenix (Tonks, Lupin?)
-A member of the Weasley family?
-Draco or another Malfoy? (Failing orders, letting down Voldemort)
-Peter Pettigrew (Dumbledore says that he is indebted to Harry because Harry saved his life.)

Double Post:

Originally Posted by HazelGuy

I think Lupin and Wormtail, since Wormtail ended up with that silver hand after he helped ressurect Voldemort at the end of book 4. It might be reading too much into it, but silver is always the kind of weapon thats used to kill werewolves.

Wormtail's hand won't be used to kill Lupin. Rowling has already stated this on her website.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

But see, because she said that they were deaths that had not been planned on from the beginning and they are people that she ahd not planned on killing when she started writing, it leads me to believe that they will not be major characters and that they will be deaths that have no real impact on the major story line.

If Sirius Black was to make a miraculous comeback and arise from the grave only to fall to death again, one would think that she would have planned such a twist from the beginning and it would not be someone dying that she had not anticipated on. I suppose she could have planned on him coming back and not on him dying during the battle at some point. It just seems rather pointless and cruel to have him comeback for a last minute reunion only to have him killed off once again.

While I agree that the deaths were probably thrown in for shocking dramatic value, I disagree that some of the people should be tossed out because they have lesser roles in the story. The Tonks/Lupin love interest at the end of Half-Blood Prince seemed rather rushed and pointless to me. Either it was added just because or it is to have so bearing on future parts of the story. While I wouldn't dismiss the possibility of killing Tonks, I agree that it would be rather stupid and I hope that they don't spend time on that.

I have always been a supporter of the innocence of Snape. While I do believe that there will a confrontation of sorts between Harry and Snape, I hope that Harry doesn't kill Snape. I would also assume that a death of Snape would also have been planned from the beginning.

From Prisoner of Azkaban, I believe, and the scene at Christmas with Professor Trelawney I had always believed that either Ron or Harry was going to die at the end and considering that Voldemort most likely will be defeated, that leaves Ron to die. This was probably just a red herring thrown in, though, considering the reliability of Trelawney's predictions and Dumbledore's death in the book. Again, I believe that Ron's death would also have been planned out.

Considering that she has these books mostly thought out, I would safely assume that the death that she is talking about here would be relativley insignificant characters who are killed off for shock value;A member of the Order of the Phoenix, a less important Weasley family member (Bill, Charlie, perhaps one of the parents, Percy or even Fleur.), Death Eaters (Bellatrix and Neville?).

I would put money on something happening at this wedding and that strongly disfavors all the Weasleys surviving.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.