What if Harry dies?

[Inge]

No: HPFGUIDX 85266

Just to pick a few of the posts that I want to comment on:

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sylviablundell2001" 
<sylviablundell at a...> wrote:
Conan Doyle became resigned to being slapped in the street by furious 
women when he tried to kill off Sherlock Holmes.  Slapping is the 
least JKR can expect if she kills of Harry.
Sylvia (who doesn't think for a minute it will happen)

and in #85235 Sylvia continues:

<snip< 
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
----

Now me (Inge):
There have been many more posts suggesting what JKR can or cannot do 
with her books.
Honestly. It's HER books. Not yours. Not mine. She writes them. She 
is to decide what's going to happen and she doesn't need to ask 
anybody's permission concerning what will happen to Harry or any 
other character in her books.

I will read the books just the way they ARE and just the way they 
WILL BE - because that is how JKR intended the books to be and to 
end - and I wouldn't want her to change a single thing of what she 
planned. If she thinks Harry should die - then be it.

What gives ANYONE the right to want to slap her if the next books 
don't come out the way YOU want them to be or the way YOU think they 
should come out in order not to disappoint any children who might not 
like what she writes?

What gives ANYONE the right to even suggest that JKR *owes* anything 
to any child at all? She doesn't. It's her books. It's her story. She 
writes it - and jeez am I glad she does.
I'll keep reading till the end and I will accept whatever ending she 
has in store for the characters. JKR alone has the right to decide 
who will die and who will not.

Inge