JKR borrows from heroic literature/ who dies?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 154590

Carol earlier:
> 
> > In the same interview in which JKR talked about giving a character
a reprieve <snip> she talked about the temptation of killing off the
main character so that no one else could take him over and write more
books about him (presumably after her death or the copyright has
expired??), but I don't think she would do that. For one thing, we
have "neither can live while the other survives." I think that means
that the winner (clearly Harry) will finally be able to live, to be
"Just Harry," to have normal relationships and finish school and get a
job like any other young wizard (or Muggle).
> 
KJ writes:
> 
>     The thing that seriously bothers me about this is that Harry has
never had the chance to just be Harry. He has always been a child with
no family, a child in the public eye. As a result, he has suffered
from the ministry, the press, classmates, and even his budding social
life is messed up.  Do you really think that if he wins out over
Voldemorte that he would ever have a chance at a "normal" life?  I
don't.  He will never get a job because of his own abilities.  He will
be the Boy-Who-Lived-And- Defeated-Voldemorte.  He will be even more
in the hated limelight.  <snip> This is why I tend to think that Harry
may not survive, it would not be a great life for him. He hates the
notoriety, the fawning, the gossiping, and the over-blown expectations
of others.

Carol responds:
Yes, I absolutely believe that JKR intends to reward Harry with a
normal life, the life he's tasted with the Weasleys and his brief
fling with Ginny but never fully participated in because he's always
been "a marked man" (or "marked boy"). 

He's learned to live with both fame and notoriety, even with infamy
when he was regarded by most of his schoolmates as the Heir of
Slytherin. And if he still wants a job as an Auror, fighting any Dark
wizards who are still out there (I anticipate another Azkaban outbreak
in Book 7, for one thing), he can qualify on his own merits (though I
hope he wouldn't be given special privileges like being able to skip
his last year at Hogwarts and the three years of training. Having to
go through what every other Auror goes through would help to
"normalize" him). And assuming that Ginny survives, he has what JKR
considers to be his perfect future wife waiting for him (or sharing
the battle with him).

Killing Harry off during the battle with LV would be the easy way out.
And unless JKR is a hypocrite, she'll do what is right rather than
what is easy by allowing him to "live" rather than merely "survive" as
he's done for most of his seventeen years (as of Book 7). JKR says
that she worded the Prophecy carefully, and I'm sure she worded it so
that, Dumbledore's skepticism to the contrary, it will come true in
the end. I take "either must die at the hand of the other" to mean
"either Harry or Voldemort must die at the hand of the other"--IOW,
only one will die, and it won't be Harry.

Carol, who is sure that JKR won't kill off her hero or his future wife
or his best friend because she wants him to be rewarded and because by
the end of Book 7, he will have suffered more than enough