Can't get no Satisfaction...or can I?

[Steve]

I'm enjoying the discussion of Harry's Fate, always
very interesting with lots of room for speculation.

I was on another website forum -

Hatrack River (Orson Scott Card of Enders Game fame)
http://www.hatrack.com/cgi-bin/ubbmain/ultimatebb.cgi?category=1&r=nfx

the "Books, Films, Food and Culture" forum is a great 
place for general discussions with intelligent people.

Some one asked for some help in a story they are 
writing (character names) and as the discussion
broadened, one of the posters made this comment -

"Also, the end should be satisfying- NOT good or fairy 
tale, but satisfying. You should never have the reader 
feel like they were tricked into the story."

That's what I trust JKR to do, create a satisfying
resolution to the story. It may be sad, it may be
tragic, or it may be happy, or even bittersweet. 
Yet, sad and painful, or joyous that it may be, I
am confident it will be satisfying.

She may not resolve every issue we have discussed 
over these many year, but I trust that I will be
satisfied with the resolution she does bring. 

It is my trust in JKR that leads me to the last
part of the statement quoted about. I must not,
and should not, feel like I was tricked. No
'it was all a dream' or Harry was writing this all
in his own book or some other such ending. If JKR
took me all this way over these many many years,
and has drawn me into investing so much time, hope,
emotion, concern into these books and this story,
then she better deliver the goods in the final 
book. 

So, for me, it is not so much a question of
whether Harry lives or dies, but whether what
ever the resolution might be is satisfying to
me. I can conceive of endings in which Harry
dies that are very touching and satisfying,
even though I very much hope Harry does not
die. 

While speculation is fun, in the end it is a 
matter of trust. You've gone all this time,
and made this huge investment, now are you
going to trust the author to 'bring it all
home'?

Steve/bboyminn