[HPforGrownups] Re: Should Harry Potter die?

[Alix Petty]

No: HPFGUIDX 2074

Wow, poor Harry - you certainly seem to see a gloomy future for him! *g*
You're not Sybill Trelawney in disguise are you?

I find all this hypothesis fascinating, but I have to agree with Penny and
Cassandra (great fics, BTW Cassandra - I'm a new reader of your Draco
series' and I can't wait for a new chapter - you made me LOL so many
times...and Penny, also looking forward hugely to the next episode of yours
and Carole's opus) I can't see JKR being quite so melodramatic...quite apart
from Cassandra's point that her most touching moments are the most
understated (quite aside from James and Lily's appearance in GoF, I always
get really teary in PoA when Dumbledore tells Harry that he did see his
father, as Prongs rode again...) she deliberately deflates the most
melodramatic and OTT situations and characters (Professor Trelawney,
Professor Lockhart) and most of the characters seem to have lessons to learn
along the way.  Personally, I think Harry will make it to the end of the
series alive, but it will have been a tough journey, with plenty of
heartache, soulsearching and loss along the way - we've already heard as
much from JKR - right now, I'm not prepared to put money on anyone else
making it to the end alive, knowing the way JKR can pull the rug from under
our feet (though I think one of the least likely to cark it is Hermione) but
I think Harry will be there for sure.   I kind of see it in the manner of a
Shakespearean comedy or romance - there has to be real loss or serious
threat of loss to make the victory at the end really mean something - and I
think there will be an unequivocal victory for Harry at the end, even if it
is a bittersweet one.  I've spent a few tortuous hours trying to work who is
going to die that upsets JKR to even think about - I was always convinced it
would be Dumbledore, but recent discussion has had me very worried about
Ron...

Alix

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> 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.
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> 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.
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