What if Harry dies?

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I will be surprised if Harry doesn't die, in book Seven. JKR has
hinted at it so much (though I have no time to get the references). 
Plus, there is the big C. S. Lewis influence that Rowling admits to. 
Remember, everyone died at the end of the Narnia series. (Though it
hardly seemed tragic since the story continued 'through' the door and
we only heard that the characters were dead in a quiet kind of way. 
Did anyone notice, by the way, that Rowling's door that you can go
through, but not around, is pulled straight out of C.S. Lewis?)

These are supposed to be children's books and in my experience,
children do not mind characters in books dying. Well-meaning adults
want to censor it away, but children can deal with this just fine, if
it makes sense in the book. Thus, all the cleaned-up versions of
authors like Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm who had
plenty of bleak things in their books.  The Little Mermaid, for
instance, is supposed to die.  And I know many people who say that the
Little Match Girl was their favorite story as a child.  Harry could
well die (though I think he would kill Voldemort somehow in his
death); in fact, I personally find it rather difficult to imagine what
a surviving Harry would do.  It would be somewhat anticlimatic to have
him survive wouldn't it?

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