Harry's experiences : what's missing ?

[cat_kind]

No: HPFGUIDX 116650


> Kneasy wrote:
> > Put aside thoughts of what you *want* to happen.
> > Now provide evidence - from the books, from JKR interviews, her
> > website, wherever, that there will be a happy resolution.
> > (snip)
> > She's written a series like no other - what evidence do you have
> > that the ending will not also be like no other?
> 
> Carol responds:
> I'm confused. "Will *not* also be like no other"? If Harry dies
> destroying Dumbledore, as you appear to expect, that would hardly be
> an original ending. I expect JKR to thwart Harry's expectation of
> "murder or be murdered" by doing something radically original and
> unexpected.
(snip)
> All I'm saying is that Harry heroically sacrificing himself to destroy
> Voldemort will *not* be an ending "like no other." It will be an
> ending we've all seen too many times before. I expect something
> better: Harry defeats evil using the power of good in some original
> way and becomes, once again, The Boy Who Lived.


catkind:  Agreed, hero heroically sacrifices himself in order to
destroy evil overlord is hardly an original.  But hero heroically
destroys evil overlord and lives happily ever after is far more
common, surely?  I reckon either could be done in an original way, and
of course using the "power he knows not".

It's a shame about the "neither can live" prophecy;  otherwise there
could be something really original in leaving the evil overlord alive
at the end of the series. I could just about imagine ending the books
at the point where the side of good has all its armies and supporters
lined up and is heading bravely off into battle...

In support of a happy ending:  JKR is supposed to have got very upset
about killing off Sirius, a character who only appeared occasionally
through three of the books. Kill off her own hero, who she's
presumably far fonder of?  It's not exactly evidence about the ending,
I know, but at least it's evidence of a soft heart.

catkind