I was actually thinking of Dumbledore as dying early on in 7. This would open the book with a bang, setting off a great deal of tension and narrative twists (ie machinations for the Headmastership and giving us a new view of the now-familiar setting), and nicely break the pattern of ending the books with a death.
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