Harry's "leaving" (was: Re: Self-contained worlds)

[Anne]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Amy Z" <lupinesque at y...> 
wrote:
> Very interesting post, Dan . . . please ramble some more.  And yet 
> another voice in my ear telling me to read Bleak House.  OK!  OK!  
> I'm reading!
> 
> Annemehr wrote:
> 
> >thinking that Hogwarts does seem to be *my* way out, too -- 
> > could that be why I want Harry to live in the end?
> 
> I feel that way too.  Now that I think about it, Harry's leaving 
> Hogwarts would be almost as painful to read as his dying.  I 
probably 
> won't be truly happy unless he becomes a professor and stays 
there.  
> I know one thing--when the enormous oak doors close behind him, I'm 
> planning to stay on their inside side.  Bye, Harry!  Have a good 
> time!  See you at reunion!


I will repeat what Steve bboy_mn wrote a number of months ago: If JKR 
kills Harry Potter, there will be a worldwide depression, and not the 
economic kind. You will see people of varying ages (even some grown-
ups, including me) crying in the streets. And it will last more than 
a few minutes, or hours, or days... I'm rooting for Harry to beat 
Voldy for good in book 7, and return to Hogwarts in the epilogue as 
the new, *permanent* DADA instructor :-)

Anne U
(who will not accept Dead!Harry, and hopes to hell that's not what 
happens)