I really do hope that Ron, Hermione, Harry and Ginny all live. The whole series has really been about them (well, about Harry) growing up and finding their (his) way in the world, and JKR has said that they are each others' perfect matches. Why go to all that trouble if they're just going to cark it in the end? I don't know, maybe there WILL be way for them to die and still have a satisfactory conclusion (and if anyone can do it, it would be JKR), but right now, I don't think I'd be happy at all if any of those four don't get their happy endings.
As for the others... I do agree with Jerry about Harry needing to face Voldemort without his fatherly figures, but it already seems like the beginning of Book 7 will be Harry doing this alone. He says after Dumbledore's death that the last of his great protectors has gone, and now it was up to him. Hagrid and Lupin do provide supportive roles, but not in the same way as Sirius and Dumbledore did. *shrugs* That's not to say that they won't die, just not necessarily because Harry needs to face Voldemort without fatherly figure help, since it seems he lost that fatherly figure help with the death of Dumbledore.
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