Half-Blood Prince Body Count
I sat down to try to enumerate the total deaths that occur in Half-Blood Prince-- tricky business.
*Spoiler alert*, obviously, but come on, you've read it by now, haven't you?
From the green beginning to the bitter end, here's who bites the Dust & Mildewe in book 6:
“dozens of muggles” (12x where x=number of dozens of muggles)
Amelia Bones
Emmeline Vance
Florean Fortescue?
(Marvolo, Morfin and Merope Gaunt, Hepzibah Smith- in the past)
Aragog
Octavius Pepper?
5-year-old brother of the Montgomery sisters
Hannah Abbot’s mother
Dumbledore
unnamed Death Eater
Total-- 12x + 2? + 6 + (4 in the past) + 1 giant spider
Or: Muggles-- dozens
Wizards, past and present-- 10-12
Critters-- 1
Alert readers have probably picked this up in the earlier books, but the safest kind of person to be in the Potterverse is a critter. That's as it should be.
btw, check out naill renfro's parody of Goblet of Fire-- it vos very funny
http://naill-renfro.livejournal.com/1238.html#cutid1
*Spoiler alert*, obviously, but come on, you've read it by now, haven't you?
From the green beginning to the bitter end, here's who bites the Dust & Mildewe in book 6:
“dozens of muggles” (12x where x=number of dozens of muggles)
Amelia Bones
Emmeline Vance
Florean Fortescue?
(Marvolo, Morfin and Merope Gaunt, Hepzibah Smith- in the past)
Aragog
Octavius Pepper?
5-year-old brother of the Montgomery sisters
Hannah Abbot’s mother
Dumbledore
unnamed Death Eater
Total-- 12x + 2? + 6 + (4 in the past) + 1 giant spider
Or: Muggles-- dozens
Wizards, past and present-- 10-12
Critters-- 1
Alert readers have probably picked this up in the earlier books, but the safest kind of person to be in the Potterverse is a critter. That's as it should be.
btw, check out naill renfro's parody of Goblet of Fire-- it vos very funny
http://naill-renfro.livejournal.com/1238.html#cutid1