Not sure what to make of the leak. From everything I've seen there are inconsistencies in the text taken from the photographed pictures which were all photgraphed by the same person. Some say person X and Y die and others say persons A, B, C, D...die.
I haven't looked at the spoilers just the non-spoiler containing discussion of the leak. My guess is that atleast Hagrid and Snape die.
Hagrid because well you know he's going to run headlong into something without Dumbledore to rein him in.
Snape because you can only be undercover for so long before being found out and Voldy isn't going to be happy when he finds out. The most interesting thing to me is not the Horcruxes but what did Dumbledore have on Snape that he believed kept Snape loyal? Snape isn't part of the Order from the goodness of his heart but for some other reason. He didn't do it because he liked Dumbledore, as clearly he didn't as he was able to kill Dumbledore with the curse (you need to mean it for the curse to work).
To me Snape is the most interesting character. He seems to be the type of guy that joined the Death Eaters to learn about the Dark Arts and really because Sirius and James were on the other side. But I'm not sure whether Snape has an all encompassing hate and desire for power needed to be a true Death Eater....he only had his hate for Sirius, James, most likely Voldemort and perhaps Dumbledore(and now Harry). Far to focused to be effective. He also almost seems like an academic. He's interested in the Dark arts but not particularily interested in using them to his advantage. I read somewhere that said that the Death Eaters seem like Dark arts freaks while Snape is a Dark arts geek (really he's a wizarding geek that was an exceptional student in his day).
I'm not sure I'd be happy with one of the big three dying but it very much depends on how it is handled.
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