Why now? (other books / series)

[chinaskisnotes]

No: HPFGUIDX 110684

> > sad1199:
> > As I posted earlier I just CANNOT believe that JKR would allow Harry 
> > to die at the end. It just doesn't happen.[snip]
> >
> > Again, I posted earlier if Harry dies I may just burn all of my HP
> > books and start a long chain of furious, scathing letters to the 
> > author. 
 
> Pat here:
> There are children's books where the hero/heroine dies.  Think--
> Bridge to Terribithia (ooo, spelling problem there), for one.  It's 
> a very sweet story that deals with the deal of one of the 
> characters, in a way that helps children understand it.  Both my 
> daughters read it when they were in elementary school and loved it.  
> And I'm sure that's not the only one--it is just the one that came 
> to mind right now.


Temporarily de-lurking myself, I'd like to add that ALL of the main 
characters in the Chronicles of Narnia die at the end of the series, 
but they live on in "the shadowlands", if you will. Death is not always *death*, if that makes sense. More often the hero dies rather than attain 
the "happily ever after". According to Joseph Campbell, the last part of 
the hero's journey is Return, or Resurrection and it is through that return that the hero achieves freedom from the fear of death. Other notable heroes that have died at the end? King Arthur, Achilles, Gilgamesh and Christ, 
just to name a few.

I'm just along for the ride.

Chinaski