Harry Dying in Book 7

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

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From: catlady_de_los_angeles
Subject: Re: Harry Dying in Book 7
Reply To: [Yahoo! #2784] Harry Dying in Book 7
Date: 6/25/00 7:46 am  (ET)

> The last word in the last chapter of Book 7 is
> supposedly "scar." If true, how do you think
> that might be used if Harry were dead?

I'm fantasizing that there is this great big super battle (between finals
and graduation!) in which Harry dies, leaving his young friends both
astonished and heart-broken (but Dumbledore is perfectly calm). As Ron
and Hermione, each crying an ocean of tears, instinctively cling to each
other, each sees a vision of Harry walking up the sky to join his parents
and any other beloved dead who have accumulated, turning once to smile
and wave at R + H, then turning to throw himself into hugging his mother
and father, and all fade out like a cinema special effect. And R + H know
it's more than a simple fantasy when they learn they both saw it the same.

R + H are the ones who sort through Harry's stuff in his room to choose
a nice robe and stuff for him to be buried in, and I guess to pack
up the rest to be sent to whomever the heirs are --- and they find a
magic artifact on his pillow. When Ron touches it, it says (speaking
in Harry's voice) "Hi, Ron. Where's Hermione? She needs to hear this,
too." So Hermione also touches it, so both are touching it, and it says:
"Remember when Dumbledore told us, to the well-prepared mind, death is
merely the next great adventure?" and goes on to explain how, by dying,
he was metaphysically able to kill Voldemort ... altho' not to kill evil,
evil still exists and must be combatted. And he tells them, whatever they
do with the rest of their lives, don't spend it moping around missing
him, since moping doesn't accomplish anything to fight evil. And ends
"Good-bye, guys. I love you."

And the book ends with an open-casket funeral, eulogy by Dumbledore,
and Hermione looking at the body, thinking how handsome and peaceful
and contented Harry looks, even with the old familiar messy hair and scar.

Altho' it seems to me that they should have the funeral Before the
graduation ceremony, so as to minimize the pall cast over the graduation.