Ending the series (was Dept. of Mysteries, "Love" room.)

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> Juli now: Sure killing Harry would be a HUGE shock for all of us,
> specially since the books are called "Harry Potter", I mean when 
> does the main character dies? only in lame movies, in good movies
> the star gets to live, even if he/she's all alone in the world. 
> And I believe this whole series are "good". I would hate it if 
> Harry was to die in HBP, then the seventh book couldn't even be 
> called HP and xxx, it'd have to be another title (Ron Weasley & 
> Hermione Granger and the xxx). So my bet is Harry will live, but 
> his best friends may not.



Alisha:

I have to disagree with you here, Juli.  The most popular movies are
the ones where the star lives, but I don't think the best ones are.
People like to be told that good always wins unequivically, but people need to be told that sometimes good people die and we can only hope that they take down some evil along the way.  That's what makes the difference between fiction and literature.  One tells people what they want to hear and the other tells people what they need to hear.  This is why As You Like It (however much I may love it), is taught as a satire in university level Shakespeare classes.  Shakespeare's audiences wanted a comedy (though he much preferred tragedies), so he simply threw up his hands and said, "As you like it."

Alisha-who sees Harry Potter as more of a Horatio Hornblower than a 
David Copperfield.