Harry dying

[Mike]

No: HPFGUIDX 156912

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> > ><vinitasrivastava_83@> wrote:
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> > >
> > > Hi
> > > This is a presumption of what I think will happen to Harry in 
> > > the 7th and the final installment of Harry Potter. As all of 
> > > you know that Ms. Rowling has decided to kill Harry in the
> > > last book ...<HUGE SNIP>
> >
> > Alla:
> <SNIP> When has it became known that JKR *for sure* decided to 
> > kill Harry? <SNIP>
> 
> 
> @ngelita:
> 
> I'm with Alla here. JKR has been pretty emphatic that DD is dead 
> and I believe her--but while she has given hints yes, but nothing 
> in stone that Harry will die.
> <snip> 
> 

Mike now:

I don't want to put words in your mouth vinitasrivastava, but could 
you be basing your Harry_dies_in_the_end thoery on JKR's Richard and 
Judy interview? Here's the transcript from QQQ:

Jo: I've never been tempted to kill him off before the end of book 
7. I have always planned seven books and that is where I want to go, 
where I want to finish on seven books. But I can completely 
understand the mentality of an author who thinks "Well I am going to 
kill them off because that means there can be no non-author written 
sequels as they call them, so it will end with me and after I am 
dead and gone" - they would be able to bring back the character and 
write a load of ...

If this is the basis, I don't see JKR *saying* she's going kill 
Harry off, I see her understanding why an *author* would kill off 
their main character to prevent some *unauthorized* person from 
continuing the story. Well, I think Jo is pretty safe in this 
respect. I know there is a lot of fanfic out there using the HP 
characters, but would anybody accept any other author's version of 
the Potterverse besides JKR's? 

She may be drawing upon other authors and various mythologies but 
the Potterverse is uniquely hers and unprecedentedly so. Could 
anyone, especially anyone on this list, accept another author 
writing Harry Potter's adult sequel? I rather doubt it and I bet 
14.5 knuts that JKR knows it. Therefore she is probably pretty 
confident that she doesn't have to kill Harry for this reason. So 
any decision as to whether or not Harry lives is probably going to 
be made irrespective of this line of thinking.

Mike, hoping he isn't repeating someone's elses post since it takes 
him years to type anything