Book Six spoilers plus a tea plea.

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News Bulletin, Bitches!

JKR has made an announcement regarding Book Six

Is nothing sacred, woman? She better kill somebody that nobody remembers. ::hides Theodore behind her back:: I'm just saying. ::hides Neville in linen closet:: I'm the one who whacks people in this universe, not her! ::hides Dean and Seamus:: She's infringing on my territory! ::hides entire Weasley clan, with the exception of Percy in same room as Crabbe and Goyle::

Oh, d'you think it's Percy? I hope it's not Oliver. Could be Victor. Or Fleur!

Remus has suffered enough, oooooh maybe it's Peter.

My problem with knowing this now, apart from the fact that I didn't want to know any spoilers and the media apparently don't give a fuck, is that now I'm going to be stressed out the entire time I read Book Six, wondering who she'll have whacked.

This sucks, dude.

Would some benevolent soul in the UK be able to pop over to Tescos/Sainsbury's/Waitrose and get me some fruit tea? I have people who normally do this, but one's on holiday and the other, well, he's got memory issues. Nothing with lemon or ginger please. I will reimburse or um, write you something.

Comments

[resmin.livejournal.com]

My money's on Hagrid. Based solely on the final image of the entire hall clapping for him while the camera panned out and away. Damn Hollywood.

Irrationally, I'd be highly pissed if Fudge died.

[ztrin.livejournal.com]

I'm betting Hagrid, too. I read this essay (...somewhere) on the redundancy of Hagrid as a character in the series. He acted foremost as Harry's first introduction and contact in the wizarding world and guided child!Harry through it. But now his role is defunct as Harry doesn't need a guide anymore. All the new places in the wizarding world he's seen, he's been forcibly introduced to them (Ministry of Magic, etc) or he already knows them well. What Harry needs to now is to navigate himself through the world, emotionally and psychologically, esp. with Sirius' death. And he can do that only by himself. So Hagrid = extraneous.

Hagrid sort of presents himself as the one last link to Harry's childhood and previous innocence, being the first wizard Harry knew when he was still innocent, young and jailbait-y (cancel the last one). Harry's growing up now and I think JRK would kill Hagrid to cut away all of Harry's links to his previous innocence. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? *INCOHERENT*

On the other hand, my money's on Grawp squashing Hagrid.

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

acted foremost as Harry's first introduction and contact in the wizarding world and guided child!Harry through it.

Hagrid was Harry's first guide (and I agree that he's redundant right now). BUT. *jumps on soapbox* Harry's main guide to the WW is not Hagrid but Ron He's the archetypal guide, the one who introduces Harry to his new world and helps him manoeuvre around the obstacles that would trip Harry up, travelling with him on the path that Harry will ultimately have to follow alone. I don't think Ron will die in the story, because I think that Harry might completely fall apart if that happened. But I think a lot of people don't see Ron as the strong guide he is, and I really blame the films for that, as much as I may like them. Ron is NOT Harry's sidekick, no matter how many of his lines WB gives to Hermione.

Er. Sorry for the rant. *blush*