What about Harry?

[fruhu]

No: HPFGUIDX 43694

Good morning!
I'm prepared to bet this has been discussed here already, but all the 
same I can't find it in the archives.
What will happen to Harry at the end of book seven? Is it likely that 
he will die, will he become an auror one day, anything else? The 
thing is that JKR has in numerous interviews (all found at 
HPGalleries, I can't link to them now because the site is down) said 
things like: "What makes you think I will not kill him [Harry] then?" 
and "So you are sure he will not die?" What makes her say these 
things? At first I thought that's the way it has to be, Harry will 
die because it's necessary for the plot. But if she were really 
planning to kill him, I don't think she would talk about it like 
that. Now I simply think she said that to tease the interviewer or 
something.
But another question is do we want Harry to die. In a way yes, 
because if he doesn't there'll always be the urge to know what 
happened to him (then again that can be good food for fantasies). But 
on the other hand... if he dies it should be written in a way that 
still leaves the reader with a good feeling. The book The Amber 
Spyglass, for example (3rd book in His Dark Materials trilogy by 
Philip Pullman) has a very disturbing ending. The books really 
peirced my heart in a way no other books have, I think, and when I 
came to the ending it still felt like that, but in a bad way. That's 
not how it's supposed to be.

Greetings from
Fru Hu