Mortality and Harry

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No: HPFGUIDX 13746

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., hipsbeforehands at y... wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., meboriqua at a... wrote:

(You know, I almost titled this post "Offing Harry" but felt that 
would be bad for the cardiovascular health of us all)

> 
> I wonder if the key to killing Voldemort is related to how Harry 
> originally survived (i.e., the power of Lily's love protecting 
Harry, 
> unforseen by Voldemort). Might Harry have to make the ultimate 
> sacrifice and give his own life/love to save the entire world? As 
> saddening as the idea of offing Harry is--it does seem fair to the 
> story and characters. JKR would probably go there. (Of course, 
that's 
> not to say her publishers would actually let her at this point.) 
> 

Probably does have something important to do with his mom, given that 
JKR has said we'll be hearing more about the mysterious Lily Potter 
(née Evans). I'm not quite convinced yet JKR's going in that 
direction, but killing off Harry would only happen in book seven, I 
believe. So I think the publishers wouldn't really care. Besides, 
killing Harry would probably increase sales if anything, just from 
the shock value. Plus the more an author sells, the more clout s/he 
has with his or her publisher. 

Charmian, verbosely