Okay, okay...

(Minor spoilers for Deathly Hallows, but I'll be good - I promise.)








So I was wrong! He didn't die. I am honestly shocked. Towards the beginning of the book, when Molly is pestering Harry about something under the guise of "Is this sock yours...?" he says...
"I don't support Puddlemere United."
And I went "OH GOD NO AAAAAAUGH!!"

And when they were listening to the underground radio I was in a raw panic. I thought, for sure, at any moment, they were going to say Puddlemere United had been wiped out and Oliver was DEAD DEAD DEAD.


I will tell you, though, that I was so certain he was going to die that the entire week before the book came out, I wasn't even excited. I was just bummed out. (My excitement resurfaced on release day, thankfully, or I would have been one Extremely Unhappy Camper at the midnight release party. The last 45 minutes of the "party" sucked anyway due to Borders being SO cram packed full of people my clastraphobia was kicking in like mad and I nearly had a panic attack, but that's a whole other story.)


But remember that my other alternatives to Oliver dying included this:
d) JKR merely wants to constantly remind us of Oliver because she loves him almost as much as I do. ...it's possible!

He got a LINE in this book. A WHOLE LINE. Of all the other totally random characters she could have stuck into that moment, she picked Oliver - and gave him a line!!
That settles it.
JKR loves Oliver almost as much as I do. ;>

Hey - it's possible.