Dan's predictions -- followed by pain and grief.

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 99211

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "meriaugust" 
<meriaugust at y...> 
> wrote:
> 
> Meri:
> Now, answer me this: how in the heck is poor, 
> > abused, marked man, target on his back Harry supposed to live 
> > anything at all resembling a normal life post-grad? He can't. I 
am 
> > someone who desperatly wants to see him live, marry, have six 
kids, 
> > play Quidditch for England, and live to the ripe old age of 175 
and 
> > even I can admit that the chances of Harry being anything close 
to 
> > normal once the whole LV business is over is slim to none. 
> 
> Geoff:
> Why not? There are examples of people, famous for one reason or 
> another, who have later managed to stay out of the public eye and 
> live pretty normal lives.

Fair point, Geoff, but remember, Harry's not just famous. He's a 
marked man, as he describes himself at the end of Order. He also 
feels at the end of that book as if he were completely seperate from 
the rest of his classmates allready. So how do you imagine he'll 
feel once he's been at the center of a violent struggle in which he 
is the only hope for the survival of an entire people? I, 
personally, was shocked at what a bad place Harry was at mentally at 
the beginning of book 5, so I don't imagine that JKR would pull any 
punches when it comes to Harry coming to terms with the implications 
of the prophecy. And let's face it, if he suceeds in vanquishing LV 
(and I am sure he will) his birthday will probably be renamed "Boy 
Who Lived Day" (as McGonogall suggested in SS) so, unless he goes to 
live as a Muggle, Harry will never really be able to slip out of the 
public eye. And perhaps all this means is that Harry's post Hogwarts 
life will be just as extraordinary as his life in school: cheif 
auror, world famous Quidditch player, international motivational 
speaker...who knows? Anyway, I just made my above arguements to show 
why I would understand if JKR killed Harry at the end of book seven. 
Anyhow, two knuts worth...

Meri - who wonders if book six will be called "Harry Potter and the 
Depths of Despair"