I don't see Harry dying

[Peggy]

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> (SNIP)
Wanda wrote: 
>   I think that the final confrontation will 
> > show us a self-assured Harry, making logical, confident choices 
> > against a LV who is still acting from instinct and arrogance.
> 
> I think there will necessarily be a confrontation between Harry and 
> Voldemort at the end, but I don't think it's going to be the duel 
we 
> are all expecting.  

<snip>
 I think 
> it's because he knows that Harry CAN'T beat Voldemort in a duel.  
No 
> matter how much he learns, how hard he practices, how many times he 
> practices killing spiders with AK, he can never out-hex, out-jinx, 
> or out-magic Voldemort.  He can never summon up the wells of hatred 
> and evil that would put enough force behind his spells to beat 
> Voldemort that way.  I think the only thing that Harry can do that 
> Voldemort cannot, is what Lily did - give his life out of love.  So 
> this is why Dumbledore is so reluctant to do what he must do, and 
> what that whole speech at the end of OotP was about - Harry has to 
> learn to die.  No wonder Dumbledore kept putting it off year after 
> year - he wants to spare Harry just a little longer from knowing 
> what has to happen, because as soon as he learns, it will start his 
> goodbye to his friends, his life, and everything that he has ever 
> hoped for.  It's going to be a very tragic ending, and I don't 
think 
> it's going to be "easy" at all.
> 
Now Peg:

Wanda, I think you may be the first person to argue for Harry's death 
at the end of the series in a way that I agree with.  If cornered, 
and given the choice of his life or his friends', Harry may be 
willing to make the ultimate sacrifice, and in doing so, LV is also 
destroyed.

(I'm not even going to drag the prophecy into this--I've decided that 
it's so ambiguous that just about anything could still happen.)

Ultimately, I guess, it's JKR's story, and it will go where she takes 
us.  All I ask for is closure.  Happy ending, tragic ending, or some 
bittersweet combination of both is fine with me, so long as it's 
clear that the ending was the right one, and not contrived to fit the 
fans' expectations.

Peg