I don't see Harry dying

[dally1025]

No: HPFGUIDX 72643

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Wanda Sherratt" 
<wsherratt3338 at r...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Judy" <penumbra10 at y...> 
wrote:
>  His nature would lead him to 
> > confront LV once he has developed the magical combat skills, 
> > however,  in Book Five he is literally bombarded with negative 
> > results of rashness and unchecked emotion, beginning with the 
loss 
> > of the chocolate frogs at the beginning of the book and 
> culminating 
> > with the death of Sirius.  Harry is now faced with a conundrum 
all 
> > wrapped in a deceptively simple prophesy.
> > I don't think it was for nothing that we saw Hermione challenge 
> what 
> > we have all been calling Harry's `nobility of spirit' for so 
> long.  
> > He is going to need to see the situation for what it is:  a very 
> > complicated logic problem, especially since we have been informed 
> by 
> > Dumbledore that there are `other ways of destroying a man' than 
> > simply killing him.  (US edition, Ch 37, pg 840)  
> >
> (SNIP) 
>   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.  Hasn't anyone else wondered when Harry is going 
> to learn something about HOW to combat Voldemort?  We seem to be 
> setting up for a sort of "Rocky" situation:  the underdog versus 
the 
> arrogant superior, fighting against overwhelming odds.  But where 
is 
> the training, the practice, the simple advice on what to do?  Why 
> are the adults in charge, especially Dumbledore, so passive, when 
> supposedly everything depends on Harry beating Voldemort?  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.
> 
> Wanda

Now Me:
I can see see Harry dying in the end (I think it me expecting the 
worse so I won't be too heartbroken if it actually happens), but by 
sacrificing himself for his friends, therefore killing off Voldy.  
What I am hoping will happen is that by doing so, it will kill voldy 
but leave Harry alive!  I can't see him actually getting out of 
school and moving on, but maybe that's because he has never been 
happy outside of school and therefore I can't see it.  I guess JKR 
can do pretty much whatever, but I bet there are a ton of clues of 
how its all going down, but we won't get them until we get the last 
book.  Only time will tell (hopefully not too much time!).
Cera