So it seems that you can't look at any piece of media anywhere these days without seeing rampant speculation about which characters Rowling is going to kill off in the final book. Good grief! I'm getting a little tired of it. I mean, for one thing it's not a foregone conclusion - it seems more like a marketing stunt to me. Sure, I'm curious...but nothing you could say about the last book would make me any more keen to read it.