Should Harry Potter die?

[cassandraclaire73 at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 2047

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, eggplant88 at h... wrote:
> Just one month after his marriage to Ginny Harry finds Voldemore 
and > has a duel one on one with him. After a titanic struggle he 
kills > Voldemore at last, but in the process is bitten by his snake. 
Harry > knows that even Phoenix tears can't cure him this time. Ron 
Hermione > and Ginny rush to his side, Harry struggles to say 
something but his > voice is too weak for them to understand. And 
then Harry Potter dies, > it's his nineteenth birthday.
> > On the last page of the last book it's exactly one year later. 
Ginny > can hear the sounds of celebration in the distance, it's 
Potter day, > a time for wizards all over the world to honor the 
memory of a hero. > She looks down into the brilliant green eyes of 
her infant son > cradled in her arms and kisses Harry Potter on the 
forehead. She sees > no scar.

Um. I just really can't see JKR doing anything quite so melodramatic 
as all that. Killing off Harry at the age of 19 would be a ghastly 
enough thing to do, and a pregnant 18-year old Ginny? Yikes! One of 
the things I love about the HP books (anyone else?) is their 
avoidance of melodrama -- not that they aren't touching, but they 
tend to avoid large, operatic scenes. The emotion is in the small 
details-- the ghost of Harry's father says "Your mother's coming. She 
wants to see you." Nice short declarative sentences. He doesn't fall 
all over Harry, sobbing "My son!" or anything like that. Thankfully. 
And it works much better that way.
I must say I hope that if JKR ever puts Harry with Ginny, she spends 
some time developing her as a character first. As she is now, she is 
simply not very interesting.