What if Harry dies?

[tigerpatronus]

No: HPFGUIDX 85339

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "G Miller" <glpm93 at a...> wrote:
> 
> Good literary examples and I agree the "HP and the Next Great 
> Adventure" would be an excellent title for book 7.  (Although
> that 
> would probably give away the ending)

Yeah, that's why I think it'll be a chapter title, if it is anything 
at all. 

> 
<snip>  JKR could be utilizing another literary technique that she 
> has used to some extent already.  That is, the set up for the 
> opposite (or unexpected) to happen.   (one example would be H's 
> dreams of S in danger that turns out to be a trap and ends up with 
S 
> being killed anyway, <snippage of excellent scenarios / examples>   
> TVTFTG
> (The very tired father of twin girls)

Your perception of the pattern seems valid. It seems indicative that 
both GoF and OotP ended on big bummer notes (LV's return, and LV's 
rise, respectively), which might mean that Book 6 ends happy, which 
means Book 7 ends with HP's demise. Ah, such speculation. 

I thought of a most appropriate series to compare HP to: The Rabbit 
series by Updike. It deals with the maturation of a man through 
decades of life, and the last book is called *Rabbit at Rest*, in 
which Rabbit Angstrom dies, and which uncomfortably echoes DD's line 
about needing *rest* "the end of a very, *very* long day." 

TK -- Tigerpatronus