Should Harry Potter die?

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 1992

Harry might die to defeat Voldemort; his fate and Voldemort's are 
bound together by the blood Voldemort took from Harry.  This is the 
source of Dumbledore's transient look of triumph, which faded,
perhaps 
when he realized some of the other implications. but I don't think 
Harry will die to defeat Voldemort.  What is likely to happen -- and
I 
didn't think of it first, by any stretch -- is that Harry will have
to 
give up something very big, perhaps his magical powers, to defeat 
Voldemort.  Think of that; his magical powers saved him from Hell
with 
the Durseleys and gave him an identity and a place in the world, and 
now, he has to give it up. It would actually be a bigger sacrifice.

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Rita Winston" <catlady at w...> wrote:

> It would certainly be very literary if Harry carries out the 
> prophecy, which everyone but him knows about, that the only way 
> Voldemort can be killed (Voldemort CAN be killed, altho' evil will 
> continue to exist) is if Harry (and it has to be Harry, not only 
> because of his pedigree and horoscope, but all those parallelisms
of 
> both being orphans, both Parseltongues, V now containing H's blood, 
> etc) dies in the act of killing him. Part of what makes it so 
> literary is that it has overtones of the basic Christian story, 
which 
> is of course one of the main archetypal stories in Western culture. 
> Also, it would explain why Rowling has a fair degree of confidence 
> that she is not going to write about Harry's life after Hogwarts.