Re: Harry’s fate according to the bookies (more literary spoilers)

[dumbledore11214]

Carol:
<SNIP>
 "Romeo and Juliet" is a romantic comedy altered to
> have a tragic ending (and a couple of other deaths, Tybalt's and
> Mercutio's, along the way). 

Alla:

Oh, am very curious. Did Shakespeare leave notes where he mentions 
that he originally planned Romeo and Juliet to have a happy ending? 
Or are you saying it because it is not written as classic tragedy is 
supposed to be written? Which I agree with.


Carol:
"Titanic" is romantic tragedy based on a
> historical event (and Leonardo DiCaprio's character, Jack, isn't 
even
> the protagonist; Kate Winslett's character, Rose, is, and she 
survives).

Alla:

Indeed.

 
Carol:
<SNIP>
 I'd say that Harry has more in common with Odysseus
> than Achilles, or with Frodo (who doesn't die, regardless of the
> implications of the film) than with Sigurd the Volsung. But again, 
the
> elements of myth, legend, saga, and epic are not the primary genre
> she's working in.

Alla:

LOL, Eggplant apparently does not like Odysseus much <g> or Gilgamesh 
for that matter or Luke if we are are back to Star Wars.


> Carol, who thinks that "Little Women," in which one of the main
> characters dies but the protagonist grows up to become an 
independent
> adult might be at least as close a parallel to the HP model as
> "Hamlet" or "Romeo and Juliet," if not closer in some respects
>


Alla:

Yes, yes,  very cool parallel, in fact only one character dies, even 
though she is very close to protagonist and it is growing up novel 
indeed.