Anyone want to make some spoiler-free bets?

I'm actually more intrigued by whoever it is that got the stay of execution; Hagrid and Snape would be my favourites here, but it could be that Harry was initially meant to kill Draco Malfoy in a moment of rage...

Anyone want to make some spoiler-free bets?

I bet it'll be both Voldemort and Harry, just 'cause not killing Voldemort would piss off millions of people world-wide and not killing Harry would mean she'd be constantly under pressure to do sequels, which she probably doesn't want to do. Of course they could kill Voldemort and Snape, just cause I know Snape's movie death scene would be well done.

It can't be Hagrid, they'd never be able to move the body.

It can't be Her-mine-o-ninnie or Ron as those two are fairly clearly going to end up together.

Of course I have some sympathy for Snape, not because he's a complete asshat towards Harry but rather because he was constantly picked on by Harry's dad when they were in Hogwarts twenty years earlier, but that's a different story.

Damien

If she kills off Harry, there will be millions of people very, very dissapointed in this book.

If she kills off Harry, there will be millions of people very, very dissapointed in this book.

I think she'll do it as she's not doing a Hollywood novel therefore wouldn't be adversed to doing so to fully tie up the story, bring it full circle, so to speak. I could see it ending up with Harry killing Voldemort but due to x/y/z he ends up dying from the severity of what he went through. Guess we'll have to wait and see.

Damien

Anyone want to make some spoiler-free bets?

I bet it'll be both Voldemort and Harry, just 'cause not killing Voldemort would piss off millions of people world-wide and not killing Harry would mean she'd be constantly under pressure to do sequels, which she probably doesn't want to do. Of course they could kill Voldemort and Snape, just cause I know Snape's movie death scene would be well done.

It can't be Hagrid, they'd never be able to move the body.

It can't be Her-mine-o-ninnie or Ron as those two are fairly clearly going to end up together.

Of course I have some sympathy for Snape, not because he's a complete asshat towards Harry but rather because he was constantly picked on by Harry's dad when they were in Hogwarts twenty years earlier, but that's a different story.

Damien

I don't think Harry dies, but I do think that he may become a muggle in the process.

I don't think Harry dies, but I do think that he may become a muggle in the process.

I don't think Harry dies, but I do think that he may become a muggle in the process.

I hope not. The "wizard gives up his magic to save the world" bit has already been definitively done in LeGuin's EarthSea novels.

My short list for possible deaths: Snape (though I have a suspicion he could actually end a hero rather than a villian), Neville, one of the Weasleys besides Ron. And Voldemort, of course.