Let's pick at that prophecy a litle more, shall we?

[Donna]

No: HPFGUIDX 77943

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nappyronin" <nappyronin at y...> 
wrote:
> linlou:
>  I posted an analysis of the prophecy a little over a month 
> ago 
> that addresses this as well as the rest of the prophecy. 
> 
> me:
> I just read your post and the ones after it and they got me to 
> thinking.  Personally, I've always felt that Harry wouldn't make it 
> out of the series alive. (call it a gut feeling since I don't have 
> much more concrete proof than whats been debated here) And remember 
> that the protection that Lilly gave Harry happened when she 
> sacrificed herself for him.  It could be that this self sacrifice 
> could be the "power the Dark Lord knows not."  I mean, he clearly 
> doesn't know squat about giving up ones life for a friend, he has 
no 
> problem leaving his DEs out to dry.  At any rate, I'm starting to 
> think that perhaps the "love that will defeat LV" that people have 
> been alluding to could be the act of Harry sacrificing himself for 
> LV, thereby showing his Tom Riddle side what true "love" really is 
> and allowing the Dark Lord to be defeated and destroyed once and 
for 
> all.
> 
> Just my two knuts..
> 
> ~Ev who still thinks all you need is love

That is quite interesting, but let us all remember, these are 
basically children's stories.  (Ripping good tales for us adults, 
too.)  I don't seriously consider that Harry will die.  It wouldn't 
make sense for the children.  I know that JKR has jokingly hinted 
that Harry would die.  But isn't she notoriously known for giving red 
herrings in her interviews?

She has said that death is a part of life and she wanted to bring to 
children that death can be sometimes sensless.  But to kill off 
Harry?  I doubt that.  I doubt that any of the trio will die.  I 
believe that even though she tends to lead us to other places, she 
still believes in "happily ever after".  (Not in the Brother's Grimm 
sense, although if you read the original tales, they are also quite 
gruesome.  We tend to think of Fairy Tales in the Disney Sense.  I 
was thinking more in the "Into the Woods" sense of happily ever 
after.)

Yes, terrible things are still to happen.  But to kill off Harry, 
Ron, or Hermione?  I think not.  As the kids love to say in the 
books - I don't like this, I don't like this, at all.

D