What if Harry dies?

[sylviablundell2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 85235

Madeleine wrote:

>By the time Harry dies, the readers will be all grown up.  They wont 
mind, so it wont kill off sales.

This begs two questions.  It assumes that grown-ups wont mind if 
Harry dies.  I consider myself grownup, as much as I am ever likely 
to be, and I would mind very much.  Secondly, new readers are coming 
to the Harry Potter books every day, many of them very young. There 
are always going to be children coming new to the books. I agree that 
JKR wont allow herself to be dictated to, quite rightly, but I also 
think when push comes to shove, she owes more to the children who 
read her books than to the adults.
Sylvia