OOP: Re: Why Harry will die

[Alon van Dam]

No: HPFGUIDX 65667

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jenny_ravenclaw" 
<meboriqua at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Alon van Dam" 
> <alanphoenix1 at h...> wrote:
>  
> > I have to add my voice to the crowd of people believing the Hero 
> will die at the end of the seventh book. As I've said before, it 
just 
> doesn't seem to make sense to end this series of epic scale with an 
> 'and they lived happily ever after'. I'm really expecting a mixed 
> ending. Something like: Yes, the evil is destroyed and the world is 
> saved, but the hero has to die to do it. Examples are aplenty. 
There's 
> the father or all fantasy-books, "Lord of the Rings", there's some 
of 
> JKR's favorite series: C.S. Lewis' "The Narnia Chronicles" and 
Philip 
> Pullman's "His Dark Materials", both end in a mixed blessing: 
Though 
> Narnia does, as said, end in a celebration of the next adventure 
that 
> is the afterlife. I somehow doubt that Harry will willingly choose 
> death over life (though the stepping through the veil seems like a 
> tear-jerking ending), but I consider it very, very possible that he 
> will die in the killing of Voldemort, which I don't /really/ doubt 
> that he'll do.>
> 
> I hated _The Last Battle_ and found it a depressing and disturbing 
> ending.  I hated that the Pevensies who believed in Narnia died.  I 
> found nothing truly rewarding for them in that respect, even if 
they 
> got to spend the rest of eternity in Narnia.  I'd feel the same way 
if 
> Harry died.  I know many people disagree with me, but I don't see 
> death as "the next great adventure".  I just see it as death.  Even 
if 
> Harry dies saving his friends, school, and the WW in general, he 
> won't get to enjoy a life after Voldemort.  Right now it seems to 
me 
> that Harry is quite unhappy; if he dies destroying Voldemort, when 
> will he ever get to be happy?  He'll be dead!  I don't care if 
giving 
> his life is a noble, honorable thing to do - for him there will be 
no 
> reward, and I think he deserves to be rewarded with life.  He 
deserves 
> to live a life free of Voldemort's shadow always bringing darkness 
to 
> him.  
> 
> Even Harry himself, as much as he yearns to know his parents, never 
> ever contemplates dying in order to be with them.  Harry is The Boy 
> Who Lived, and that is exactly who he should be when the series is 
> over.  
> 
> --jenny from ravenclaw, who was also very very very very very happy 
> when Buffy got to live at the end of the series finale 
> **********************************

I agree with you. I think you put it in a very good way, as well. I'd 
much, much rather he lived, and will end up with a very empty feeling 
in my gut if he ends up dying, but I /am/ fearing for the worst. I'm 
soooo curious as to how this series is going to finish. I can't 
imagine it ever finishing, you know? I don't want it to ever finish! 
I don't know how JKR is planning on wrapping up all the loose ends, I 
can't see a good way.

Incidentally, do you believe that Ron will die, seeing as to, 
especially, his name connection and other similarities to 'Running 
Weasel', allegedly. Does anyone here believe that HRH will all 
survive? Y'all have no idea how much I'm hoping for that. The series 
will be so much less without one of them! Thoughts?

I suppose we'll have to wait and see *grumble*

Alon, who doesn't think he can handle waiting 3 years for Book 6