OoP: End of Book 7 and Harry's Scar

[davidbartmess]

No: HPFGUIDX 64766

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> Hello everyone. I know there has been a lot of speculation on the 
> end of the series. Will Harry live or will he die? I have been 
> mulling over these questions in my head and I have a proposed 
> ending. Excuse the lack of quotations I don't have my book with 
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> The story line itself, as we know, is not a light hearted plot. As 
> each book progresses the darkness seems to increase, encompassing 
us 
> and plunging us into a frightful world. The prophecy has shed a 
> little more light for us on the future of the next two books. Now, 
> there are quite a few possibilities for the meaning of the 
prophecy: 
> (1) Harry must kill Voldemort to live and vice versa (2) Both 
> Voldemort and Harry must die. This prophecy could include Neville 
> meaning he would play an important role, possibly help Harry 
dispose 
> of Voldemort or even die in the line of duty. 
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> Now, wouldn't it be a shocker for possibility 1 and 2 to be 
> combined? What if Harry vanquished the Dark Lord, say
 by pushing 
> him into the Black Veil or into the room containing love (as has 
> been suggested in earlier posts) and then decided it was his time 
to 
> go too? I can see Harry, bearing the marks of a horrible fight, 
> exhausted and longing to be with his loved ones (Lily, James, 
Sirius 
> and other members of the Order who had met their untimely end), 
say 
> his farewells to Ron and Hermione and walk straight into the Black 
> Veil. It would not be a sudden death like if he were to sacrifice 
> himself by pulling V into the Black Veil; instead it would give 
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> book more closure I suppose.  Harry would be able to be happy in 
his 
> afterlife. There would be no slanderous newspaper, no indiscrete 
> stares at his scar, no assassins trying to kill him and no evil 
> wizard plotting his demise, just peace. He would be reunited with 
> what we know he yearns for the most, his family (PS/SS – Mirror of 
> Erised).  This would make the ending, while utterly tragic and 
sad, 
> happy in a sense.
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> On a side note, after Harry defeats Voldemort maybe his scar will 
> burn up thereby closing the link between them and completing his 
> destiny.   
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> It would be a tear jerker for sure. 
> This of course is just a theory and I am not hoping for Harry's 
> death by any means. I just think it would be a rather final and 
> complete ending.  What do you all think? 
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> Cheers! 
> Lindsey


Just a bit of cannon that came to mind when I read this post:

"... to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great 
adventure."  Albus Dumbledore  ss   JKR might have been setting us 
up for the ending from the first book.

David Bartmess