According to Rowling's first interview, Arthur Weasley was the one who got a reprieve (instead of dying in Book 5) and Remus was killed instead
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Arthur would have been a great death, I love Mr. Weasley and all but since he was like a second dad for Harry, I bet that his death would have been a little more explicit and meaningfull, and not only "and well, then he died and life goes on". :/
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"Fred (Weasley, brother of Harry's friend Ron), Lupin (a former teacher at Hogwarts, the school for wizards and witches that Harry attended) and Tonks (Lupin's wife) really caused me a lot of pain," Rowling says.
"Lupin and Tonks were two who were killed who I had intended to keep alive. … It's like an exchange of hostages, isn't it? And I kept Mr. Weasley (Ron's father) alive. He was slated to die in the very, very original draft of the story."
On the Dateline story I saw she said she let Mr. Weasley live and Sirius die - as much as I love Mr.Weasley, NOT SIRIUS goddammit!! *yes, I cried over that and almost cried in theatres too*
The thing that burned me the MOST I think was hearing her say "I went on the internet 3 weeks before OoTP was going to be published and saw that Sirius had a huge fan following" and she was like "oops" and I basically wanted to cuse her ass out; no shit Sherlock, maybe you SHOULD pay a bit MORE attention to your fans!! not bend to their every whim but at least ACKNOWLEDGE their own fav.s, you know?!!
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Yeah, I want fics! :D
And you should post as well an icon contest or something because I'm feeling so useless!!
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The tragedy of Arthur's death might have given the seventh book a different and deliciously-dark tone of mourning that could have carried throughout.
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"Lupin and Tonks were two who were killed who I had intended to keep alive. … It's like an exchange of hostages, isn't it? And I kept Mr. Weasley (Ron's father) alive. He was slated to die in the very, very original draft of the story."
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2007-07-25-harry-potter-spoilers_N.htm
Seeing her explicitly confirm what everyone knew sucks.
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And if it caused her so much pain, she did a crappy job of showing it in the actual book. Sigh.
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The thing that burned me the MOST I think was hearing her say "I went on the internet 3 weeks before OoTP was going to be published and saw that Sirius had a huge fan following" and she was like "oops" and I basically wanted to cuse her ass out; no shit Sherlock, maybe you SHOULD pay a bit MORE attention to your fans!! not bend to their every whim but at least ACKNOWLEDGE their own fav.s, you know?!!
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