OOP: Re: Why Harry will die

[joywitch_m_curmudgeon]

No: HPFGUIDX 65711

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Ali" <Ali at z...> wrote:
> I can see Harry knowingly embarking on an action which will result 
> in his death. This action would be either for the benefit of 
> mankind, or simply to save some of the people he loves best. The 
> more I look at it, the more I can see Harry allowing himself to die 
> at the hand of Voldemort as a kind of subterfuge. A subterfuge so 
> that Voldemort's real nemesis, Neville Longbottom can finish him 
> off. 

I hate to agree with this theory, but it does make sense.  I hope 
you're wrong, though, Ali.

> Harry's life has been dominated by suffering and loss. He is 
> entitled to more. If JKR cannot allow him any better in his current 
> life, then perhaps we should be relieved that for Harry at least 
> there will be peace in his afterlife. 

Sigh.  Further evidence for Ali's theory is that that's pretty much 
what she did with Sirius Black, isn't it?  Double Sigh.

> It is perhaps poignant that in 
> PS Harry's greatest desire was to meet those he had never had a 
> chance to know; Ron's desire on the other hand was based very much 
> more on earthly, physical attainment.
> 
> I think that we are yet to see the true importance of the veil and 
> the role of death in the Potterverse. I do wonder whether Harry 
will 
> have to go on a journey beyond the veil in a quest to discover a 
way 
> to defeat Voldemort, or simply Orpheus-like to meet those he cannot 
> bear to have lost. Harry already knows how to get past Cerberus-
> Fluffy, the Ancient Greek Guardian of the Underworld. Perhaps a 
> draft of the potion of Sleeping Death will allow him to walk where 
> no other mortal has been before.

Harry's vision in the Mirror of Erised, and Dumbledore's comment 
about death being the "next great adventure" tend to lend support to 
an Orpheus-like quest.

I've always wondered if Ursula K. LeGuin's Earthsea books weren't an 
influence on JKR.  Hogwarts has always reminded me a little of the 
wizarding school on Roke, and the main character, Sparrowhawk, is a 
little like Harry.  Sparrowhawk goes on a journey through the Land of 
the Death in on of the books.

So, there's a lot of evidence for Ali's theory, but I still don't 
like it.

--Joywitch