United Press International Online British bookies resumed taking bets Wednesday on which character gets killed off in the sixth “Harry Potter” novel.
Betting on which character will die began eight months ago after author JK Rowling confirmed a key character would be killed off. But after a rash of bets began pouring in from the British town of Bungay, where the book is being printed, Internet betting Web site Blue Square Tuesday suspended betting for fear the manuscript had been leaked.
After assurances from Potter publishers Bloomsbury there was no leak, the site reopened betting, but at prohibitive odds, the BBC said.
The favorite so far has been Hogwarts’ headmaster Dumbledore, whose newest odds Wednesday were 1-5.
Dumbledore? Nah…
My money is on Snape. The foreshadowing hints in “…Goblet of Fire” were pretty direct.
What the author says
On the author’s website, she says, “The gossip, the non-stories, the ever-wilder speculation…Please remember that allegations of ‘leaks’ concerning deaths in ‘Half-Blood Prince’ are very easy to make. Any comment I make on such rumours would be a spoiler, so I’ll just repeat: keep those barrels of salt handy.”
Black, White and Red
If I remember this correctly, John Granger thinks that after Sirius died in the black book, it will be Dumbledore in the White and Hagrid in the Red.
If Dumbledore does die in this one, I fully expect him to reappear in the last novel either alive (Harry and Ron meet a glowing figure in white robes in the Forbidden Forest) or as a spectre (aiding Harry against Valdemoort by reminding him to use magical “Force”).
What happened to “No Spoilers”?!??!?
Am I going to have to swear off the web for the next few months?
Re:What happened to “No Spoilers”?!??!?
Those were spoilers? I thought they were, at best, semi-informed speculation. For instance, if you have Revenge of the Sith, check out this detailed analysis that got everything completely wrong.
Hmm….
:O)
I don’t think J.K. Rowling is going to be that obvious… and Dumbledore and Hagrid are pretty obvious choices to be next in the firing line.
What about Molly Weasley? Or any of the Gryffindor students? I think we’re going to be sideswiped (again).
Re:Black, White and Red
Dumbledore the Grey and Dumbledore the White?