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

[dungrollin]

> I haven't seen "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead." Obviously, I
> should.
> 

Oh my goodness, yes! It's Hamlet rewritten around Rozencrantz & 
Guildenstern as the main characters, who spend much of the play 
confused about why they are in Elsinore, what's wrong with Hamlet, 
and which one is Rozencrantz and which Guildenstern. Very 
existential, clever, funny, and for Shakespeare lovers. There's a 
very good film of it which was directed by Stoppard, and stars Gary 
Oldman, Tim Roth and Richard Dreyfuss. 

I just looked it up on wikipedia, and it said something very 
interesting. 

"Other authors have also experimented with characters who (partially) 
understand that they are fictional — for example, in Frank Baker's 
classic Miss Hargreaves: A Fantasy, in Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's 
World, in Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus! trilogy, 
in Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author, Woody 
Allen's "Old Saybrook" and in Paul Wühr's Das falsche Buch. Jasper 
Fforde's Thursday Next series also makes heavy use of characters who 
understand that they are fictional."

Since I adore Jasper Fforde, and Jostein Gaarder, I'll have to check 
out the others on the list...