What JKR Finds Important/Harry suicidal?

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Tonks wrote: 
> All this talk of suicide. That was just a passing comment, to say 
> that Harry was coping as best he could and would not turn to 
> anything like that. I didn't expect everyone to pick that part up 
> and run with it. The part I was mostly talking about is why Harry 
> was acting the way he was in OOP. That his behavior was normal given
> the experience that he had.


Kim again:

Sorry to keep on this topic, so don't read on unless curiosity gets 
the better of you...  Anyhow, to answer my own question from previous 
post, I looked into OotP again and realized it didn't seem so far-
fetched for some folks to think Harry might want to do himself in.  
Specifically, during the MoM battle, when he was possessed by 
Voldemort and more or less dared DD to kill him (though it was also 
LV speaking through Harry), that way he'd be free to be with Sirius 
again (bad poster that I am, I don't have the book with me to 
actually quote what was said).  Of course a death wish is not the 
same drastic reaction as actually going through with it would be.  So 
definitely, like you say, Harry's behavior is normal under the 
circumstances.

The other thing I recalled from past posts was people thinking Harry 
might lose all his friends during the final battles with LV/DEs and 
then not want to go on living without them.  But somehow I think that 
as long as Harry himself makes it through the battles, and that just 
one of his pals is left alive, Harry'll want to hang in there too.  
In any case though, I can't even imagine that JKR would kill the 
entire good side of the WW off and leave Harry alive all by his 
lonesome.  Speaking for myself, I'd stick around if the only other 
good guy left was Dobby, but that's just me... ;-)

Kim