Who dies? (Harry) (was Re: Who dies (clearly Ron and Snape)?)

[juli17 at aol.com]

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Susan:
> <snip> I don't think Harry will die. I think JKR will continue 
> her classic work in which the hero prevails and does not die 
> (of course she says that she's obsessed with death so who knows).

 
Barbara:           
I say that Harry dies and is reunited in some fashion with his 
parents, Sirius, and Dumbledore...which is what he's really always 
wanted...he'll go out in a blaze of glory having wiped out the dark 
wizards and his reward will be his family.
 
Julie:
Harry's reward will be to die, you mean. Which is okay--in fact
preferable to living out a full life--because he'll be with his
deceased loved ones. And no doubt his parents, Sirius and DD 
will welcome him with open arms, not a bit distressed that his
life was cut horribly short because who really needs to go through 
all the mixed-up joys and sorrows of living when you can just
die and get to your "reward" that much sooner. 
 
What a lovely message. 
 
I know you probably don't mean it that way, but that's the way
such an end would come off to me. There's more to courage than
fighting evil. It's not hard for Harry to find *that* courage, as
he's always had it. But for Harry to find the courage to survive,
to continue on in the face of his losses, well, that would be 
much truer courage than getting what he supposedly wants--to give
up and join his dead loved ones.
 
I don't think this is the message JKR wants to send, and I don't
really think she would see Harry dying as a reward, or a good thing
at all, even if it meant reuniting with his loved ones. I think
he may reunite briefly with them--go beyond the veil in his fight
to defeat Voldemort--but it will be his decision to leave them and
go back to the world of the living that will define Harry's courage.
 
I'm convinced Harry will live for other reasons, not the least of 
which is JKR loves him (even if he's only a fictional character)
and I don't think she would find it easy to kill him off and let
his so far trauma-fraught life be all there is for him. Not to 
mention that the HP books would no longer be beloved, much read, 
dog-earred books, because who wants to read all of Harry's efforts
to overcome so many emotional and physical obstacles knowing he
simply dies in the end--even if he gets to be reunited with his
mummy, daddy, Uncles Sirius and Dumbly? 
 
It won't happen, I tell you! It won't. (IMO, of course ;-)
 
Julie, who is off to Las Vegas in a couple of weeks and wonders
if there are odds on Harry's survival, because there are odds
on everything else in Vegas!
 
 
 

 
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