Harry's fate (does he have to die?)

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 74556

The Sergeant Majorette says:

Debate has been raging over whether Harry can survive the saga with 
his mind and his magic intact and still maintain the literary 
integrity of the author.

My original opinion was that he couldn't, but many people have posted 
time travel and dreamwalk theories that give me hope. There's a 
theory floating around (it's a real one, but I can't reference it 
properly; I haven't read science in 30 years and I refuse to start 
again at my age) that the concept of linear time is our human attempt 
to impose an order we can understand on a chaotic universe. One 
function of this theory is the notion that every possible universe 
exists simultaneously, still, like frames of a movie; the only thing 
that moves is your perception inhabiting one "you" after another in 
an endless string of nonmoving universes.

And what does this have to do with Harry's fate? Simple (not): a very 
powerful wizard like Dumbledore could do some complex voodoo 
mathematics to determine what the smallest change would be to have 
the desired effect. He figures the most economical way to make the 
change would be to take this one kid and nudge him one way. If it 
works, he could snatch Harry back a nanosecond before he actually 
dies and put him back one frame before the one he came from.

This way, it all *would* have really happened, Harry wouldn't 
remember it, and he could go on to lead a normal, happy life.

--JDR