JKR's site up-date - Rumours Section

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tammy" <elsyee_h at y...> wrote:
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> 
> > vmonte:
> > 
> > I'm really worried about her comment that there are people who will 
> > be upset with the ending but that she really wrote the books for 
> > herself and had to be true to herself.
> > 
> > What could make people so upset?  The only thing I can come up with 
> > is that she is planning on killing Harry. That would be very 
> > upsetting indeed. What do you all think? 
> 
> 
> Tammy replies:
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> I've been worried for quite awhile that she would kill off Harry.
> She's been seemingly firm in the idea that 7 books is it - it's her
> limit. Killing Harry off would most firmly end the Harry Potter
> series, leaving no room to bring it back.

I think it's possible that she's going to have Harry die--though unlikely. He is the point-
of-view character. How would she end the books, in a view-from-the-other-side long 
shot, a la American Beauty? More likely she's setting us up for Harry's death and 
resurrection (symbolic or literal) in book seven.

Her vague warning on her website is clearly about book six. And regarding that, I 'd have 
to say it is extremely unlikely either Harry or his two best friends are going to buy it. If Ron 
or Hermione die at the end of book six, it will throw the balance of the whole series off. I'll 
believe one or both of them dying at the end of book seven--it will make me weep, but I'll 
believe it. But not this time through.

No, I'm sticking to my prediction: Dumbledore dies. It's time for Harry to face LV without 
"the only wizard he ever feared" as back-up.