Harry's ideal ending & my idea of a horrible ending

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 86195

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, MadameSSnape at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 11/30/2003 12:43:38 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> eu_amo_tu at y... writes:
> And if Rowling cried when Black died, she won't live with herself if
she 
> kills Harry Potter himself. She would be saying "evil has won" and
that just won't 
> happen.
> 
> Not necessarily.  If Harry dies like King Arthur, destroying
Voldemort in the 
> process as Arthur destroyed Mordred, then evil does not win.  And
JKR doesn't 
> have to put up with being pressured to write "Harry Potter and the
Midlife 
> Crisis", "Harry Potter and the Receding Hairline", and "Harry Potter
and the 
> Viagra Prescription".
> 
> Sherrie


True. But killing him off (as so many authors have done before her)
would be the easy way out and I don't think JKR will take that route.
She already knows who will live and who will die and what happened to
all the important characters after VW2. Harry could quite easily be
among them. In fact "The Boy Who Lived" suggests that he will. The
challenge will be to find a satisfactory way to end the story without
having Harry die. And I don't think, based on what we've seen so far,
that JKR will let us down--certainly not through the failure of her
imagination.

Carol