What if Harry dies?

[michaeljacksonfan1970]

No: HPFGUIDX 85226

Carol wrote:
> > <snip> Hardly anyone would buy the books once the word got out, so I 
> > don't think her publisher would allow her to do it. And she cried 
> > when she killed off Sirius, who barely qualifies as a major 
> > character, and she's made it fairly clear that she won't kill off 
> > Hagrid or Ron, so she probably feels even more strongly about killing 
> > Harry. 
 
I think she might kill Harry, since we know she doesn't want to write
book 8.  If she kills him by having him fall through a veil, it
wouldn't' be so bad.



> Carol:
> I work in publishing and the publishers I know of are interested in
> making money. If they think that killing off a highly popular
> character will interfere with sales, they will reject the book as
> written. Yes, she can go to another publisher, but money counts with
> all of them--or at least with all the ones I work with. Rowling may be
> a special case, but I'm willing to bet that her current publishers
> have been given her word that she won't do anything that will cause a
> dropoff in readership. Publishers want books that sell. Period.

Yes, but by the time Harry dies, the readers will be all grown up. 
They won't mind, so it won't kill off sales.



Then Carol said:


> P.S. I accidentally snipped the part about Hagrid. I read in an
> interview, which I naturally can't find at the moment, that JKR had
>no intention of killing him off. I didn't invent the idea, you can be
>sure.

JKR said something about this a few years back, but I don't remember
much about it.  I thought she said it was more likely that she would
kill him, though.

~Madeline