Should Harry Potter die?

[Scott]

No: HPFGUIDX 2168

Eggplant,
I think that we have all collectively agreed that the book to which 
you are refering is not worth the paper on which it is printed.  I 
myself have not read read the book but have discredited it based on 
numerous accounts of people in this group ( though I admit that this 
is as bad as saying that the Harry Potter Books are evil based on the 
advice of a friend...)

As to whether Harry Potter should die...I think that this more so 
that anyone else is the death that would be most likely to crucify 
JKR.  However, I think that if any writer could handle killing off 
the protagonist she could.  But on second thought I wonder how she 
could handle it...After all by the time the last book comes around 
she will of been eating, sleeping and breathing Harry Potter for 
close to 13 yrs.  I don't know if I, in her place, could kill Harry 
without feeling that I had murdered my own child, (mind I'm not in 
JKR's place.)

Do I think Harry Potter will die? I still am undecided but really 
can't see it Happening...I think that if it comes down to it Ron will 
take Harry's placeand die to protect him...Oh and by the way, I 
really don't think that JKR is planning to write about Harry when he 
is 19  (one book for each yr and Hogwarts equalis the end will be 
around his 18th brithday) so your prediction doesn't work... and as 
much as no one wants HP to end, I believe that in the end by keeping 
the number of books to the original seven she will be able to 
maintain the integrity of the work and secure its place for posterity.



Scott



J K Rowling can't just come right out and say that it would be 
> absolutely impossible to write an 8'th book in the series because 
> then she'd be giving the entire game away, but in a recent 
biography 
> of her by Marc Shapiro she comes about as close as you can get to 
> saying that Harry Potter will die at the end of book 7 without 
> actually saying so.
> 
>  "Although she would occasionally tease about never saying never 
when 
> asked if she would follow Harry off to college the author has 
> remained adamant that Harry Potter will end with book number seven. 
> She admitted to feeling sad at the idea that Harry Potter will end 
> someday and feels there will be a "bereavement" when she has 
written 
> the last line on the final page but she insists that "There will be 
> no Harry Potter midlife crisis or Harry Potter as an old wizard."
> 
> I stand by my prediction, poor Harry will not live past his 19'th 
> birthday.