Gabriel the Hacker claims to know who gets killed in the "Deathly Hallows," the final installment of the Harry Potter books.
He's wrong. Or perhaps partially wrong.
One of Harry's friends will die in the "Deathly Hallows." But it won't be the one Gabriel chose.
Ron Weasley has to die in the final chapter. He must die for a number of reasons -- most of which I will go into now.
First, Harry does not have the motivation to kill anybody. Even Lord Voldemort. Harry has exhibited no homicidal tendencies at all through the first six books. Even though he knows Lord Voldemort killed his parents, Harry has few memories of his parents. They were never close to him. It's not that they weren't important to him, but Harry hardly knew them.
Someone close to Harry has to die for Harry to muster the desire to kill. Who better than his best friend, his confidant, his sidekick.
Which brings me to my second point.
Being a sidekick is a mark of death in any story. All sidekicks die. Throughout the history of literature, the sidekick has always died.
But Ron has to die for reasons other than to give Harry the motivation to kill.
He has to die to unite the Weasley family. He has to die for Percy to see the error of his ways and return to his family. He needs to die so that Fred and George will stop fooling around with jokes and pranks and use their powers to fight Lord Voldemort.
But mostly he has to die to release the fire that's burning inside of Hermione. She will play a big part in Lord Voldemort's demise. JK Rowling has big plans for Hermione, and one of them will be to become a heroine in the fight against evil.
Ron's death will bring out the heroes in most of the characters close to him. His brothers, his girlfriend, but mostly his best friend. Harry needs a reason to want to kill Lord Voldemort. He doesn't have it yet, but if Ron dies at the hand of Lord Voldemort, it will be more than enough to push Harry over the edge.
It makes too much sense for Ron to die.