What if Harry dies?

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 85260

<<<In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dtbonett" wrote:...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...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?>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says

My recollection is that the little mermaid doesn't die, because she 
doesn't have a soul. She just turns into foam on the sea. That has 
always creeped me out, and I was relieved to find out that "The 
Little Mermaid" is not a folk tale, but the product of a clinically 
depressed mind. Now *that's* bleak.

I also think Harry's survival would be anticlimactic. I keep reading 
these threads looking for a crumb of hope that there's a way JKR can 
keep Harry alive without wussing out on her Master Plan (I've found a 
few, which I clutch to my bosom), but in the main, I'd rather just 
not think about it...

--JDR