Why now?

[humantupperware1]

No: HPFGUIDX 110705

> Luckdragon surmises:
> 
> It doesn't bode well for those of us who hope for a happy ending. When 
> the author "guides" our questioning me thinks guilt is in the air. JKR
> felt bad at killing off Sirius (she had to do it) and fans really reacted
> to this. Whenever before has an author had to deal with this kind of fan 
> reaction while in the midst of writing her novels? She knows we will not
> be happy and she is trying to prepare our minds for what is coming. She
> has already joked about having to go into hiding when she has revealed
> things the fan base was dreading. I still cannot believe she will kill
> off Harry (I won't til the last word of the 7th book); but there will be 
> deaths and many of us will be furious.


HumanTupperware:

I agree with your point here.....It must be the most extraordinary amount 
of pressure to write such a well loved book, and we all know there are 
more deaths coming......I can't remember the specific interview, but JK specifically says that Sirius' death is "the beginning of the deaths" or 
some such thing........and though I would like to believe that Harry will 
not die, I think there is a large chance that he will. 

Think about JK's veiled comments to this one.."he will survive TO book 
seven" (my caps) and she has asked a few interviewers why they assume he 
will be alive after the 7th book, when they ask he if she will write more 
books on what Harry does after Hogwarts. She has also said that she has 
had the books planned for so long, she can't change the ending now even 
if she wanted to, and that she never really intended the books for children. 

Personally I think that if I was writing such a massive thing for so many years, the only way to end that particular chapter(unintentional pun) in my life would be to kill him. If Harry doesn't die, we will be pestering her 
for the rest of her life to write more Harry books. Oh dear. Now I've dug myself into a hole by convincing myself that she IS going to kill him, so 
she can get on with the rest of her life....aaaarrrrggghhhh!!!

Sorry!

HumanTupperware