Death (was Re: Why now? (other books / series))

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 110714

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sevenhundredandthirteen" 
<sevenhundredandthirteen at y...> wrote:

Laurasia:
> Many heroes (who don't die) come back from their journeys 
> changed permanently by the situation- 
> In "Lord of The Rings" Frodo is destroyed by The One Ring 
> and can never return to the blissful ignorant life he once knew. In 
> destroying Voldemort Harry could be affected deeply. He might have 
> to surrender a part of his soul in order to destroy Voldemort. He 
> might have to take on a piece of Voldemort in himself to commit the 
> murder. If that happens, I would prefer to see Harry die, as 
opposed 
> to live a half-life until the ends of his days.

Geoff:
I have always said I want to see Harry survive. However, if you look 
at Frodo's case in the Lord of the Rings, he came back to Middle-
Earth after the fall of Sauron and in fact remained at Bag End for 
just under two years. So he was able to spend time with his friends 
and see the way things were developing before he made the decision 
that he would be better off in mind and body by taking up Arwen's 
gift and sailing West to Valinor.

I think I could live fairly happily with a scenario like that. I know 
that in many books and especially in modern real life, deaths happen 
abruptly but I would like to see a post-Voldemort Harry at least 
living for a time without that damned prophecy hanging over him and, 
if possible, for a bit longer than that....