I don't see Harry dying

[iris_ft]

No: HPFGUIDX 69671

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My scenerio of the day.....Harry survives through some sort of 
> trickery (assisted by D. or the twins.)                           
> Toad (theory #102 and counting)

Interesting, especially if you include Dumbledore and the Twins.
Fred and George are masters in the art of rule breaking, and 
Dumbledore is the character who talks (CoS, chapter 18) about  
choices.
We mustn't forget the importance of those two parameters in Harry's 
problem (killer or victim, but dead in both options, according to 
the Prophecy).
A prophecy is like a "meta-rule". So the question is: can you break 
this kind of rule? 
And then we come to the old debate about predestination and free 
will. Is Harry prisoner of a prophecy, or is he free to rule is own 
life?
OK, in PS/SS, there is the word "doom" when Harry is sorted to his 
Hogwarts'House. But instead of letting the Sorting Hat decide for 
him, he manages to control his becoming, when he tells it he doesn't 
want to be in Slytherin.
Later, in PoA, there is Hermione's considerations about Divination, 
and about death omens (the Grim): is it because someone sees a death 
omen that he has to die inevitably? And if we consider the Prophecy, 
it is a kind of death omen...
Are people predestinated, or are they free?
The solution, in Harry's case, isn't what we believe about that old 
debate, but what JKR believes. She's the demiurge of her own 
universe, of her own representation of the world; so she has to 
choose the option by herself. Predestinated or free, each of both 
conceptions of the human condition carries its own greatness.

Amicalement,

Iris