Happy endings/Death?

[Charmian]

No: HPFGUIDX 7859

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Scott " <harry_potter00 at y...> 
wrote:
> 
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> I am still undecided as to whether I think Harry will die. All I 
can 
> say is "We shall see".  Then again I have been wondering whether or 
> not Voldemort might die in books V or VI and then...well I could 
> ramble incessantly (if I'm not already) but I think I just let 
> everyone else comment.


Well, I agree that Rowling isn't going to go for horror style graphic 
violence (notice that Adavra Kadavra is a quick death, not a painful 
drawn out one). I actually thought she was going to kill off a 
regular character in book IV. 

Where did people get the idea that Harry was going to die? This seems 
a pretty regular one in the HP Character death poll. I personally 
doubt that he will...Rowling just doesn't seem to be writing that 
dark, at least so far. Same thing for Hermione and Ron. I think about 
the darkest thing happening recently in the books is the fate of 
Neville's parents. 

As for Voldemort, unless Rowling pulls an "evil behind the evil" plot 
on us, I don't see him dying until book VII, but he probably will 
perish in some fashion. 
The older characters, IMO are probably more likely to get killed off. 
I don't see Dumbledore dying until VII or the very end of VI at 
least, because he's too important to the plot and structure of the 
series. Though I do suspect he will die, because they're always 
talking about how old he is, and the mentor dies quite frequently 
too. 
It would be exceedingly depressing if Rowling did kill off Sirius or 
Lupin. But there's not really much that makes me suspect she would.
 
As for the faculty, I doubt she'll kill of McGonagall, as she's set 
up to be Dumbledore's successor. Snape, on the other hand, is 
possibly acting as a double agent, always a risky job, and is *not* 
on Voldemort's good books anyway, to put it mildly. The rest of them 
don't have enough pagetime for me to suspect one way or the other. I 
actually do hope she tells us more about them, especially the 
perennially mentioned but never very present professors Sinistra and 
Vector. 

Charmian