Dying characters

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 22262

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Marianna Lvovsky <mariannayus at y...> wrote:
> I don't think there is going to be some sort of
> Armageddon at the end. It's a children's book after
> all. 

As delighted as I think most all of us are that the HP stories are so 
widely read by children, it should be noted that JKR did not intend 
these as children's stories. That's only how the publisher decided to 
market them.

Anyway, even if we call it a "children's book," that doesn't 
necessarily mean a happy ending. Remember the Brothers Grimm?

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/grimm/index2.html

I think, as in LOTR, that the HP narrative will end with the defeat 
of evil, but it will come at an extremely high price.

  - CMC