The late Harry Potter

[B.G.]

No: HPFGUIDX 130290

 
> But actually, child readers can put up with death if it's well
> motivated. What about Beth in Little Women - or did she survive 
into
> Good Wives? (Nobody reads The Old Curiosity Shop any more, so let's
> ignore Little Nell - but grown men and women wept in the streets 
when
> the magazine in which she finally became extinct appeared, and they
> all survived and kept on buying Dickens!) And there's always the 
final
> CS Lewis volume in the Lion, Witch and Wardrobe series - is it The
> Last Battle? The three main human characters - Peter, Edmund and 
Lucy
> - are in a train crash, and are delighted to discover that they've
> died in it because now they need never leave their alternative 
world.
> Which is obviously heaven, since Narnia ends. And we know that the
> books were written with a clearly evangelical purpose ... which we
> don't know about the HP books. We may suspect that they follow the
> usual pattern of good triumphing over evil, but to call this 
Christian
> is too narrow.
> 
> The idea of Dumbledore rising from the dead like a phoenix is
> charming, but alas! I can see too many holes in it. And as for 
Harry,
> my best bet is still that he survives as a mortal being but without
> his magical talent - becomes a Squib, I suppose. And that would be 
a
> kind of death. But certainly gentler than the real thing, and
> something that could very well move the plot along to its 
conclusion:
> something like: only by Harry doing a Prospero and renouncing that
> rough magic can Voldemort lose his own power.
> 
> My other great hope of the moment is that JKR is less, er, 
sentimental
> than some of her fans! Children are the great realists, remember.
> 

BG writes:
JKR is adamant that there will only be 7 books.  She stated that 
after we have read book 7 there will be no need for any more or for 
a prequel series.  This leads me to believe that she will explain 
not only all that happened in GH that fateful night but also what 
happens to Harry.  Now whether it is in a last minute flash-forward 
to his death as an old man or his untimely death remains to be seen, 
err read.  As to her statement about we will know her faith by the 
end of book 7, this makes me think she will show someone, IMO Harry, 
in an afterlife state.  LV has in essence "lost his soul" in his 
search for immortality and in dying he will be released from 
his "something worse than death" state.  In POA when the dementors 
suck out a soul it was said to be worse than death.  Harry and LV 
will both die in book 7.  Harry will have everlasting life because 
of his choices.  He will release LV from his "worse than death" 
existence by killing him.  Harry will go "into the light" and LV 
will cease to exist – anywhere.  By choosing to do what was right, 
Harry he will live forever, in Heaven.  LV chose evil and he will 
die.