[quote name='browneyedgal68']I'm guessing Hagrid. He'd lay down his life for Harry, but he really hasn't seen any battle action up to this point, so he would be a surprise. Snape? Not sure if he'd be a surprise, but I want to know what this concrete proof is.
After reading all books to this point (I reread all right before the movie comes out), I don't think it will be HP. Rowling has hinted at the fact there's a simbiotic thing with Voldemort, but the power seems to go back and forth, so if HP succeeded in offing Voldemort, he would only get stronger.
Oh God, why have I wasted so much of my time on adolescent literature?[/QUOTE]
In regards to the latter, I have two reasons: (1), Rowling isn't great at selling me on the goodness of characters, but she makes bad characters so detestable that you *have* to keep reading to see them get their comeuppance. From the first chapter, I did feel somewhat for Harry, but I was 10X more concerned with the Durseleys getting hit by a
ing train. She keeps the main characters incessantly engaged with these kinds of characters (the Malfoys, and most of the time, Snape). Also, (2), she does have some unpredictable plot twists. She does a fantastic job leaving the reader's mind questioning how everything will come together until very close to the end.
I think you're on to something about Hagrid. Lots of sopping wet pages if that happens, I think. He's perhaps the most purely good (in a naive way) character in the series.