Should Harry Potter die?

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 1998

--- 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. 
> 

Yes, the sacrifice of the sacred king is one of the archtypal 
Christian stories, but it comes from paganism (read Mary Renault, or
The White Goddess)