If she looked in the Mirror of Erised, which shows one’s deepest desire, she would “see herself entwined with another person whose identity you can probably guess”.

I'll bet she's leading us on, as usual.

Incidentally, at the inspiration of a poster on FreeRepublic, here's my list of "snuff probabilities" for book seven:

Harry............................75%
Ron..............................15%
Hermione.....................25%
Snape..........................70%
Hagrid..........................50%
Neville..........................10%
Fenrir Greyback............85%
Bellatrix Lestrange.......65%
Wormtail.......................80%
Molly Weasley...............5%
Arthur Weasley.............5%
Bill Weasley..................40%
Charlie Weasley............2%
Percy Weasley..............10%
Fred Weasley...............15%
George Weasley...........15%
Ginny Weasley..............25%
Fleur Delacour...............40%
Lupin.............................5%
Tonks............................10%
Moody...........................10%
Voldemort......................"I'm melting! MELLLTIINNNGGG!!!" (99% or higher)

Whoops, forgot to add:

Draco Malfoy..................15%

Toward the end of book 6 Hermione and Ron were being quite affectionate (in a teenager way) so this is a surprise?

Generally agree with Matt's list. A few major characters will probably die and the rest live on. The question is which ones. I don't see, unless Rowling is in a bad mood that day, a scorched earth end where almost everybody dies.

Matt - don't forget Grawp(sp?) Hagrid's giant brother who may some role in book 7.

No one has yet explained to me why rowling always capitalizes and misspells the word hogwash...

Since Snape killed Dumbledore it's my bet that Hagrid gets Snape. So there's one major character down. Voldemort would be the other.

JKR just did a charity appearance in New York, with Stephen King and John Irving. During the Q&A, Salman Rushdie got up and asked a long, complicated question ending with "Is Snape good or evil?" JKR replied, "Your opinion is correct." But since no one else could figure out Rushdie's opinion, we still don't know if Snape is good or evil.

Now, when she can pull that off -- answering a question in a packed auditorium and leaving use clueless -- I think we're wasting our time trying to guess at stuff she hasn't answered. We're writing crude fanfic.

Not that it isn't fun.

Draco is only at 15%? I expect him to get snuffed early, trying to protect some petty secret.

And I doubt if the story with Snape and Dumbledore is as it seems. Remember Spock and McCoy.

Harry should at 100% along with Voldemort, Voldemort cannot die unless Harry dies too, because the mark Harry carries is a piece of Voldemort -- that was explained to us in one of the books. And Harry is the Christ who has to die to save wizardkind.

Snape is the flawed hero, the St. Paul or St. Peter to Harry's Jesus. If he dies, it will be at the very end, when the triumph of goodness is complete.

Hermione and Ron have to live -- the ending has to have some happiness, and there's no happier ending than a marriage.

The fate of the Dracos is optional. We'll just have to wait for the book.

It's been pretty obvious since book 4 that it would be Hermione and Ron. Hardly a revelation.

I'm half expecting a Dumbledore resurrection, given all the phoenix imagery at his funeral. I agree that Snape is the anti-hero. I'm just hoping his reason for betraying Voldemort is more substantial than that whole remorse at setting Voldemort onto the Potters thing.

... but guess who's the father of Hermione's baby.