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

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:

> 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.

Geoff:
If I may go off at a tangent (which one is allowed to do on OTChatter!), 
LOTR is a book which has been a constant companion for me for (gulp) 
just over 50 years and I have never accepted that Frodo dies in the 
accepted sense - and I do not think that the film suggests that either.

People have speculated about this for years but I do not think that a 
parallel can be drawn between the books because the circumstances 
of the stories are so different.

My hope remains that Harry will survive; the thought has suddenly 
crossed my mind that perhaps as an adult, like Diggory Kirke in the 
Narnia books, he might become a mentor figure for future generations 
of young wizards as they face whatever problems the post-Voldemort 
Wizarding world will meet.