What if she got run over by a truck?

[aldrea279]

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<Is a book ever really "finished" - or do we just stop reading it?> 
~Aberforth's Goat

I have to answer that questions with another: is a story ever really 
finished, or does someone just stop telling it?

For every movie or every book I have ever watched or read, when it 
got to the end I always sat there and wondered "What next?".  The 
characters are created and developed, but then I think it's up to 
everyone's own imagination as to what happens to them afterwards.  I 
don't expect Harry Potter to be any different, unless J.K. just 
suddenly decides to kill off every character.

<IMHO, I get the feeling that book 7 is by no means going to 'close' 
the series - it might end Harry's stay at Hogwarts, but I don't think 
it can conclusively end the debate on good and evil/ rights and 
liberty or any of those delicious things we like to get our teeth 
into.> ~nithya_rachel

I feel exactly the same.  I don't think all of the loose ends can 
ever be tied up in a series, so I don't see how book 7 would demolish 
the flow of Harry Potter chatter.  In fact, it could probably 
increase it.  Once book 7 is out, all the restrictions would be off.  
People could reminisce over all of them and come up with many an 
unexplained theory, or they could look to the future of Harry Potter 
and Co. and do the same.