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Rowling: Two 'Potter' Characters Will Die - 6/26/2006 5:29:56 PM   
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Status: offline 		LONDON - Author J.K. Rowling said two characters will die in the last installment of her boy wizard series, and she hinted Harry Potter might not survive either.
"I have never been tempted to kill him off before the final because I've always planned seven books, and I want to finish on seven books," Rowling said Monday on TV here.
"I can completely understand, however, the mentality of an author who thinks, `Well, I'm gonna kill them off because that means there can be no non-author-written sequels. So it will end with me, and after I'm dead and gone they won't be able to bring back the character'."
Rowling declined to commit herself about Harry, saying she doesn't want to receive hate mail.
"The last book is not finished. But I'm well into it now. I wrote the final chapter in something like 1990, so I've known exactly how the series is going to end," she said.
Some characters might die, but the blockbuster movie franchise lives on. Warner Bros. Pictures has announced that the fifth installment will be released in U.S. theaters, including Imax screens, on July 13, 2007.
In "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," directed by David Yates, the teenage Harry continues to battle the evil Lord Voldemort (again played by Ralph Fiennes) and his followers. Daniel Radcliffe is returning as the title character, and Emma Watson and Rupert Grint reprise their roles as Hermione and Ron. Oscar-nominated actress Imelda Staunton plays the malicious, frumpy Professor Dolores Umbridge, who tortures Harry.
In her Monday interview on the "Richard and Judy" show, Rowling said people are sometimes shocked to hear that she wrote the end of book seven before she had a publisher for the first book in the series.
"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," she 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."
Rowling is the richest woman in Britain _ wealthier than even the queen _ with a fortune estimated by Forbes magazine last year at more than $1 billion.
Whatever she writes next, Rowling is sure of one thing: It won't be as successful as Harry Potter.
"I don't think I'm ever going to have anything like Harry again. You just get one like Harry."
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RE: Rowling: Two 'Potter' Characters Will Die - 6/26/2006 5:36:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		Bet on one thing: they can behead, de-limb, and otherwise kill Harry deader than a doorknob, but they can bring him back. Remember Sherlock Holmes?

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RE: Rowling: Two 'Potter' Characters Will Die - 6/26/2006 5:39:13 PM   
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Bet on one thing: they can behead, de-limb, and otherwise kill Harry deader than a doorknob, but they can bring him back. Remember Sherlock Holmes?


Exactly what I was thinking.  'Cause you know, the main character she killed off in the last book ain't really dead.  Wait and see.

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RE: Rowling: Two 'Potter' Characters Will Die - 6/26/2006 5:43:50 PM   
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Status: offline 		Harry should die - its fate and hermione too she pisses me off to be frank.

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RE: Rowling: Two 'Potter' Characters Will Die - 6/26/2006 5:48:21 PM   
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Status: offline 		And even if she kills him off as surely as possible, showing his body, DNA tests, shredding re-livification technology, and nuking the world, SOMEONE will come up with the idea that he's not really dead, and that it was really Dobby who died for him

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RE: Rowling: Two 'Potter' Characters Will Die - 6/26/2006 5:49:58 PM   
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Harry should die - its fate and hermione too she pisses me off to be frank.



They all piss me off...  If they don't die, I'll kill them myself....

Benji the dog - the new Voldemort.

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RE: Rowling: Two 'Potter' Characters Will Die - 6/26/2006 6:05:03 PM   
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And even if she kills him off as surely as possible, showing his body, DNA tests, shredding re-livification technology, and nuking the world, SOMEONE will come up with the idea that he's not really dead, and that it was really Dobby who died for him

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Thou does forget sweet pooch that the theme of the books is magic.
One kick ass spell and abracadabra Harrys back !!

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RE: Rowling: Two 'Potter' Characters Will Die - 6/26/2006 6:14:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		Can't we just kill off anyone who likes the little fucker?  That would solve it.

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Edited to clarify: In real life.  Killing off people in books does no good anyway, we have established this.

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RE: Rowling: Two 'Potter' Characters Will Die - 6/26/2006 6:26:48 PM   
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RE: Rowling: Two 'Potter' Characters Will Die - 6/26/2006 6:28:55 PM   
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Can't we just kill off anyone who likes the little fucker?  That would solve it.

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Edited to clarify: In real life.  Killing off people in books does no good anyway, we have established this.


Yes .................... oh hang on no my daughter is in love with daniel radcliffe.
Shit how sad i know his real name.

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RE: Rowling: Two 'Potter' Characters Will Die - 6/26/2006 6:35:19 PM   
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Yes .................... oh hang on no my daughter is in love with daniel radcliffe.
Shit how sad i know his real name.



Who's that?  And tough shit.  Sacrifices must be made for the good of mankind.

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RE: Rowling: Two 'Potter' Characters Will Die - 6/26/2006 6:42:59 PM   
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Bet on one thing: they can behead, de-limb, and otherwise kill Harry deader than a doorknob, but they can bring him back. Remember Sherlock Holmes?


Exactly what I was thinking.  'Cause you know, the main character she killed off in the last book ain't really dead.  Wait and see.


Death be not proud, and it damn sure doesn't get in the way of commerce at times LOL.

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RE: Rowling: Two 'Potter' Characters Will Die - 6/26/2006 6:44:42 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'm sorry, but there's no way they can kill Harry--if they did, I don't think Scholastic would print it or the movie industry would accept it.  HP is part of a very well known, very popular genre (melodrama) that has clear sets of rules.  You have an inciting event (Harry's parents got killed), a series of ups and downs of increasing intensity with good prevailing over evil in the end.  It worked for The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and a zillion others and she isn't going to break the genre (I wouldn't be surprised if Scolastic or the movie company had it as a deal.)  However, no reason not to make it as tense as possible.  (And Baum tried to kill the doorway to Oz at the end of the 4th novel, I think, maybe the 5th, one of them, but he just ignored that at the start of the next one.)

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Spolier (from the 6th book) ahead








I'd bet money that Snape dies.  He will turn out to be good--that is what he and Dumbledore argued about--Dumbledore ordered Snape to kill him if he had to and Snape said he didn't want to do it anymore and Dumbledore put his foot down and insisted.  Snape will do something and will die in a final battle with Voldemort, and that will be like the girl throwing the slipper in the Nutcracker, he will distract Voldemort and that is how Harry will finally kill Voldemort.  And (I wouldn't be money on this, but I think it is a good bed) one of the Weasleys will die--probably Arthur.  The books will end with Harry and Ginny and Hermione and Ron going off together. 

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RE: Rowling: Two 'Potter' Characters Will Die - 6/26/2006 6:45:28 PM   
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Yes .................... oh hang on no my daughter is in love with daniel radcliffe.
Shit how sad i know his real name.



Harsh benji harsh but what the hell the good of mankind and all that.
I was never meant to be a mother anyway lol

Who's that?  And tough shit.  Sacrifices must be made for the good of mankind.

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RE: Rowling: Two 'Potter' Characters Will Die - 6/26/2006 6:55:58 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hey, I'm sacrificing a lot of people close to me as well.....

Did I ever mention I keep my friends close and my enemies closer?

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RE: Rowling: Two 'Potter' Characters Will Die - 6/26/2006 6:59:51 PM   
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RE: Rowling: Two 'Potter' Characters Will Die - 6/26/2006 7:03:13 PM   
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Status: offline 		Nonononononono, Severus Snape is not bad...he's just DRAWN that way

The kids can all become glorious heroes...awarded posthumously if necessary...as long His Hawtness gets to live. 

  Okay, they can kill him...those of us who like to read the fanfics will just find a million ways to bring him back and get him laid... 

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RE: Rowling: Two 'Potter' Characters Will Die - 6/26/2006 7:03:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		Wait just a second!  These people don't deserve a ceremony!  They should be dragged into the street and shot like dog....  ummmmmm....  I mean, magical rats.

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RE: Rowling: Two 'Potter' Characters Will Die - 6/26/2006 7:10:42 PM   
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Wait just a second!  These people don't deserve a ceremony!  They should be dragged into the street and shot like dog....  ummmmmm....  I mean, magical rats.

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benji


Apologies but im finding it amusing that peeps keep popping in and are mortified that harry may die. Its a book - its not real lol.
And as for magic rats - benji they dont exist but i do know of a good sacrificial pooch.

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RE: Rowling: Two 'Potter' Characters Will Die - 6/26/2006 7:11:19 PM   
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Okay, they can kill him...those of us who like to read the fanfics will just find a million ways to bring him back and get him laid... 



Have you made peace, Cynthia?  You just admitted a capital sin.

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PS:  A capital sin does not mean not capitalizing Sir.

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