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

[Dan Feeney]

Anne:
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 :-)

Oh, I almost dread to say anything more. Some thoughts running round 
my head. Margaret Atwood: "there are worse things yet than survival". 
AD: "there are worse things than death"  HP: "there are things more 
important that surviving"
I don't want HP to survive just cause people would be sad, or, to put 
it another way, I don't want a shallow compromise. If it's to be 
surival, it'll have to drop the bottom out of the world. And it can't 
be "lose magic" cause, as I've said elsewhere, Rowling's magic isn't 
Le Guin's, to use a striking example. Ged doesn't become pedestrian, 
losing magic, he's translated bodily, with Tenar, with Tehanu, with 
the help of Tehanu's "mark" if you will (her dragonness, her half-
face, and Kalessin, who isn't really her father but is her real 
father, as it were) into "purity". (They are, in a manner of 
speaking, tortured into so-called purity.) Such a translation is 
impossible in Rowling's muggle or witch wizard worlds - there's no 
world there to be translated to. Luna kinda hints at what would work 
in Rowling's world, think.
And the same regarding death. If it happens, it has to knock the 
bottom off of the world.

Wonder why I just had this funny idea about Ron's "thought" attack. 
What if it was Cassandra's brain. ~gleefully snickering~

dan