Should Harry Potter die?

[Vicki Merriman]

No: HPFGUIDX 2194

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, eggplant88 at h... wrote:
> Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer > 
> 
> >She's said the series will end with Harry's final year at 
Hogwarts. 
> 
> I don't think she's even said that.

Yes, I think she did.  I can't quote specifics, but each book is 
labelled year one, year two, etc.  She has adamantly stated that she 
will be writing no more than 7 books.  Now of course she could change 
her mind, as others have done based on outrageous advance offers, but 
right now she truly has no intention of writing past book seven, and 
I think she has stated in an interview that each book covers one year 
of Harry's life, so while book seven might at the MOST go a month or 
two past graduation, year seven, graduation year, will be the final 
book.

With four out of seven books written, they ALL end, without 
exception, at the Kings Cross train station as the friends separate 
for the summer.  Book seven might go off that rule a tad, but I think 
she will maintain her current habits.

Remember, she has written the last paragraph and the last sentence 
ends with the word "scar", I'm thinking that somewhere between 5 and 
seven after the final fight with Voldemort, the scar will magically 
disappear, and that the last line ends with "the boy without a 
scar."  or perhaps "young man..." or even "Harry Potter took comfort 
in knowing that he was no longer 'the boy with the scar.'"   Remember 
that Dumbledore is always going on about how useful a scar can be.  
So I think the scar contains some residual magic that will be used to 
help defeat Voldemort, and then will disappear.

By the way, I don't think she has any intention of killing off Harry.

Vicki