What if Harry dies?

[Melody]

No: HPFGUIDX 85138

Annemehr wrote:
>Didn't we just touch on this subject in OTC recently? Oh, well, I'm
>ready to weigh in again!

Oh dear, did we?  I have been in another world lately, I am sorry. 
Hope you do not mind me rambling on about it.  I do so like to ramble.
 ::big grin::


Melody wrote:
>>So, killing Harry seems gracious to me almost. To me, he will never
>>be normal.

Annemehr wrote:
>Well, I agree with everything you said *except* that killing Harry
>would be gracious.
**clip a bit**
>As we read, we understand more and more that Harry has lived a life
>bounded by and crushed under the evil of Voldemort. I would really
>like to see him get out from under that and live before he dies.
>He's never had that before, and goodness knows he's earned it. 

Yes, I think he has more than earned that right, I just think at this
point and after five books, it is impossible, in my mind, that he can.
 Oh, he can try.  By all means, he should do things in book six like
he did in five like go out with Cho and be uncomfortable and get his
first kiss.  It is endearing and helps to establish normalcy, but now
that he knows all this, I wonder if he will *want* to do things like
that.  I guess he will still fly in quidditch and get over this
amazement phase of "gee I have to save the world."  But, will Harry
want to drag his friends into that world with him?  At the end of OoP,
he had not and that makes me wonder.  In the rest of the books, Harry
had told Ron and Hermione *everything* by the end.   

OoP, Ch 38 "Harry's heart began to race.  He had not told Ron,
Hermione, or anyone else what the prophecy had contained."

I find that telling.  No one asked Harry not to tell.  Before Harry
would only keep his mouth shut when he promise he would not tell.  He
has not promised.  

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Melody wrote:
>>And that is how I see Harry.  It is so hard for me to sit on my 
>>hands with Matrix: Revolutions comparisons, but I true want Harry to 
>>be the same kind of hero.  Kind of daft.  In his own world or 
>>reality.  But the right one that can save everything if he only
>>trust himself, his advisors (even Snape), and his intuition. 

Mandy:
> I'm right there with you Melody.  For the entire last 20 min of 
> Matrix Revolutions I'm sitting there thinking, "That's what's going 
> to happen to Harry."  "That's what's going to happen to Harry." Over 
> and over again. 

Really?!? 

Oh, Wow.  That more that makes me ecstatic that someone else saw and
wants that too.  I was at a theater with those seats that rock, and I
sat there swaying back and forth giddy at the thought of Harry doing a
"Neo".

It was just such a noble ending.  Someone taking up the cloak of their
destiny and facing it head on very unsure of what will happen but sure
they will do all they can to protect more than themselves.  That is
how I want Harry to be.  I want to be able to respect him forever and
almost be in awe of the decision he made based on all he was taught.  

That said, I wonder how much more can we parallel to Matrix.  I see
Ginny as Trinity.  Ron and Hermione as Morpheus and Niobe.  Yes,
loosely.  ;)  But I see Ron and Hermione off in their quest bit, and I
see Ginny helping Harry.  I also see Trinity's plot line working very
well with Ginny's.

(Geez, this is hard not to give away spoilers)


Mandy continued:
> I can't really seeing it ending any other way.  But, of course, that 
> is how JKR wants us to see it right now and she has a genius for 
> manipulation.  I can tell you in every book she's guided me exactly 
> where she wants me to go, has me thinking Harry's thoughts a split 
> second before he speaks them and when I put that realization along 
> with her hint's in interviews about him possibly not surviving, and 
> the definite end of the saga at book 7, she most definitely wants us 
> to believe, that at least for now, he is going to die.  

Hmm.  She does make that difficult.  I still think she says she might
kill Harry to make us realize she is in charge of all this and not the
genre.


Melody