OK, so, I resisted it as long as I could, but I have started reading the latest Harry Potter installment. I managed to avoid reading any of them until last year, well after Phoenix came out. And now I’ve managed to wait all of six days before, last night, giving in and reading the first couple chapters.
My current guesses as to who dies in the end: I don’t know about the “central character death” but I’m thinking, there have to be some additional collateral fatalaties. For one, Voldemort. He dies at the end of all the other books, too, so he’s got to die in that one. Also that French girl. This is a novel by a Brit, after all– the French can’t go so well in this one either.
I kind of hope Hermione gets it, though. Not sure why.
Secretly Ironic 