Re: Harry’s fate according to the bookies

[eggplant107]

"justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

> the HP series isn't "Moby Dick"

We don't really know that yet. I think of the entire Harry Potter saga
as just one very long novel, and we haven't read the final all
important concluding pages of that novel yet.

> Harry isn't Captain Ahab 

Now there's an idea!

Hermione:  To be enraged with a dumb brute of a dragon that acted out
of blind instinct is blasphemous Harry.

Harry:  Speak not to me of blasphemy, Hermione; I'd strike the sun if
it insulted me! 

> why bother to create Harry an ideal wife
> if he's not going to marry her?

But I think Harry will marry Ginny before he dies. Yes they are both
very young and Ginny will need the approval of her parents to marry so
young, and as much as they love Harry the Wesley's would normally
would never give their approval to such a thing, but they know the
times are very far from normal, both of Ginny's parents understand
it's now or never. Besides, that's the only way JKR can produce Harry
Potter Junior and we've got to have that.

> Snape killing Harry would certainly be a surprise

Yes, even I, a charter member of the I hate Snape club would be
surprised by that; but the bookies think that is far more likely than
Harry surviving and bookies are not stupid. In fact nobody is willing
to place a bet that Harry lives, everybody wants to bet that Harry
dies, to the bookies that tells them it's a fixed game and the plot
has leaked and they refuse to take any more bets on the subject.

Right after I read book 6 I thought Snape was the personification of
evil and anybody who thought Snape was good was crazy. I still think
Snape is a S.O.B, but my views have moderated a little, but just a
little. On Sirius Black's worst most evil day he was a better person
than Severus Snape was on his best; and yet, and yet, there is still
some good in the man. I believe Snape will die nobly and heroically to
compensate for his less than noble life. Even after we've read the
last page of the last book many readers (probably most) will still be
unsure how to feel about Snape, and therein lies Rowling's genius. For
many years I can see a debate on this list along the lines of, Yes
Snape did the right thing in that particular instance but what about
all the other times he
..

Snape is a character that will stick with you, he belongs to the ages.

Eggplant