Is JKR going to kill Harry or not?

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 24844

Issy:"In interviews with JKR, she has made it clear that the book 
series will end with book 7."  "Why would JKR make book 7 the 
last? Because she's going to kill off Harry."

Hold on, folks. That's quite a leap there. She's making Book 7 the 
last because she will have finished the story of Harry's years at 
Hogwarts and the Second Voldemort War.  We can't say it's the end of 
Harry's life also.  She doesn't want to write more after that.

Izzy:"I have done a little resurch and am certain it will read 
something like, 'Harry Potter, the greatest wizard of all time with 
the lightening bolt scar.'"

We'd love to know your sources. Personally, I have it on good 
authority  - I've been put under a Fidelius charm, I can't reveal my 
sources - that it's

"Well, I'm glad we cleared up that misunderstanding," said 
Voldemort. "Let's have dinner at the Leaky Cauldron, what do you say?"

"That sounds good," said Harry. "But how will we get there? I'm too 
tired to Apparate."

"No problem," Voldemort answered. "We'll take Wormtail's car."

Izzy:"The death of harry will lead to the death of further Harry 
Potter books. So that we wont wonder what happens in the future. If 
Harry was to die then the reader wouldn't care (as much) about what 
life will be like after Hogwarts for Harry and his friends. IE- jobs, 
deaths, marrage etc..."

LOL!!! WAY too late for that. We spend a ridulous amount of time now, 
today, speculating about every possible aspect of Harry's future 
life, and we've paired the poor guy up with everybody but Winky, and 
I'll bet I'm wrong about *that*.  "Death of future Harry Potter 
books?" Don't count on it.

Having said all that, JKR *might* - repeat, *might* - kill off Harry 
at the end of Book 7 for any of a zillion reasons. I don't think she 
will, but I know I can't back that opionion up.  But if she thinks it 
guarantees she won't have to write any more Harry Potter books, then 
she should reflect on the writing life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and 
then read "The Final Problem" and "The Empty House."