Harry living through book 7 (was Harry's Ideal happy ending)

[Diana]

No: HPFGUIDX 86214

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, KT Waters <eu_amo_tu at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> >"Harry lived to nineteen before being killed by the Knight Bus 
> >in a freak accident.". :( I cringe just thinking about the 
> >possibility of that kind of an ending. 
> >
> >Diana L.

******SPOILER ALERT for The Dark Materials Triology of books by 
Pullman!***********


> 
Jadeau replied: 
> Rowling wouldn't do that. She would either kill Harry at the 
direct ending or leave him alive. 
> 
> Personally, I don't think she will kill him at all. Okay, so 
Pettigrew may die, Snape may die, even Dumbledore, one of the 
Weasleys and a fan of Harry's (a creevey?) but put those deaths 
aside - with the many others that have been promised - (uncle Vernon 
maybe?) - Harry won't be killed. I seriously seriously doubt it. 
> 
> I mean, I have written books my self, whole novels, but if I get 
an idea about a character, who perhaps is the main part, and then 
decide he will die, I find it very hard to carry on writing. And if 
Rowling cried when Black died, she won't live with herself if she 
kills Harry Potter himself. She would be saying "evil has won" and 
that just won't happen.
> 
> Also in an interview she said she would write more than seven 
books only if she felt the great desire too at the end of the last. 
So it was meant to be an septology (Um?) just like Pullman's The 
Dark Materials was meant to be a Trilogy. But Lyra didn't die in his 
book (she was the main character) both her parents died and she lost 
many people she loved - after that is it not too harsh to kill her 
too?
> 
> So I think what Rowling intends to do is just end it, so we can 
imagine what Harry does after Voldemort's defeat. There will be a 
struggle, no doubt, the above named will perhaps all die with many 
others, but Harry, Ronald and Hermione will break thorugh the other 
side. It just has to be. (IMHO)
> 

Diana again:
In my heart I don't think JKR would really do that to Harry in an 
epilogue.  She is a much better writer than she is frequently given 
credit for (avid HP fans like on this list aside, of course) and 
that kind of off-the-page death would be bad writing as far as the 
fate of Harry is concerned.  However true these words may be I can 
still imagine it as a really horrible ending.
I also hope to see Harry, Ron and Hermione live through and past the 
end of the series, intact and finally able to just be teenagers 
without constant threat of death hanging over any of them. 
As for Pullman's Dark Materials Triology, which I just recently 
read, I know Lyra lives, but she did lose someone she loved very 
much, even if not in the usual way of loss.   
I don't want ANY of my favorite characters to die, but I know some 
of them must - it is a war against evil after all.  Ultimately, I 
can only hope that the author's love of the character of Harry is as 
strong as the many legions of fans who love Harry and that it will 
stay her hand in writing Harry's death at the end of the series.   

Diana L.