` ` I did seriously consider killing Ron , '' Rowling said . But in a new special feature on the `` Deathly Hallows 2 '' DVD , author J. K. Rowling notes that she 'd planned one fatality that would have probably scarred a generation of young readers . It 's easy to imagine that he would have bit the dust relatively early . How much freakier the latter scenario would have felt without good ol ' Ron around .
` ` I did seriously consider killing Ron , '' Rowling said . It 's easy to imagine that he would have bit the dust relatively early . How much freakier the latter scenario would have felt without good ol ' Ron around .