User blog comment:Hermione Chase/"The Blood of Olympus" Expectations/@comment-10806824-20131010003522/@comment-4503464-20131011161106

If one of them didn't die I would be disappointed. RR has been foreshadowing it for about forever.

Also, like Sayuri says, good writers kill of characters. Holding onto characters and making them go through sh*t that should've killed them ten times over get boring and makes the series horrible.