Just where is JKR getting her info from?/Book 6 progress

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> Carol:
> 
> > And as I've said before, the last word in the book (read epilogue) 
> is
> > "scar." That would be a pretty odd word to end with if Harry doesn't
> > survive!
> > 
> > Carol
> 
> Finwitch:
> 
> Well, depends on a sentence! It could be, for instance, in a funeral 
> where someone kisses Harry's scar as a final 'good-bye'.
> 
> It could be a pub named to Harry's honour after an after-school-class 
> meeting (owned by Ron Weasley), making the end sentence: ... and 
> Ronald Weasley, a successful pubowner after inheriting Harry Potter, 
> closed Harry's scar.
> 
> Then again, it could be: ... and the only thing left of Lord 
> Voldemort was Harry's scar.
> 
> Or, possibly, '..there was nothing left to remind them of Lord 
> Voldemort, not even Harry's scar.'
> 
> Or something else *I* can't think of.
> 
> Never the less, Harry MUST survive Book6.
> 
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Antosha:

Other possibilities:

* In the final showdown, Harry martyrs himself by protecting someone near him, thereby 
destroying LV but giving that person (Ron, Hermione, DD, Draco, Ginny, Ginny and Harry's 
love child, etc, etc) a scar--"the only living reminder of Harry's sacrifice was XXX's scar."

* The final scene is, we've been told, going to let us know what happens to 
everyone. So perhaps it happens years after the showdown, and Someone (see above list) 
is wistfully thinking of Harry--"remembering a lovely boy with green eyes, black hair, and 
a sinuous, lightening-shaped scar."

* She's been playing with us, and the scar is utterly unrelated to Harry--"Fred and 
Angelina knelt down to kiss their daughter's skinned knee, hoping it wouldn't develop a 
scar" or "Dumbledore rode the escalator down into Trafalgar Square Underground station. 
Surreptitiously, trying to get his bearings, he lifted his trouser leg to examine his maplike 
scar." 

* If he survives, it could be something equally innocuous--"With a contented sigh, 
Hermione/Ginny/Luna/Susan/Pansy/She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed slipped into her 
husband's lap, kissing him on the forehead where, once upon a time, as a young man, he 
had born a faint, lightening bolt scar."

I think the fact of the matter is that we WON'T know whether or not Harry survives, and 
who (if anyone) survives with him until we all read the final book. JKR has put us on notice 
that People Will Die and we have to believe it's going to be people we don't WANT to die. (I, 
in fact, will be utterly shocked if DD survives all seven books. And there are a number of 
characters I'd be HAPPY to see snuff it, not all of them Death Eaters. But that's just me.)

I will be devastated if Harry dies--even if it is a willing passage, like Frodo's at the end of 
LotR. The kid has been through so much, I just sort of hope that he gets to enjoy a drama-
less, joyous adulthood, surrounded by people who love him. But only one person knows 
whether that's what's going to happen or not..... (And if you're reading, Joanne, and he IS 
going to buy it, could you at least give the kid a little happiness before he goes?)