Maybe Harry doesn't die???

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 154612

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "UNIX4EVR" <unix4evr at ...> wrote:
>
> The comments in the interview just make it impossible to know -- 
> typical Jo!  
> 
> I don't want Harry to die -- but the biggest "hint" that he will 
> comes from an early interview with JKR.  At the time some 
> fundamentalists were saying HP was anti-Christian (magic and all 
> that).  She commented that by the end of the series there would be 
> no doubt that she was a Christian.
> 
> Which to me reads "ultimate sacrifice" and a resurrection of sorts 
> (not coming back to life, but perhaps going on to another realm 
> where DD, his parents, etc. exist).  More quotes (these from 1999):
> 
> Is she a Christian?
 
> JKR  ''Yes, I am,'' she says. ''Which seems to offend the religious 
> right far worse than if I said I thought there was no God. Every 
> time I've been asked if I believe in God, I've said yes, because I 
> do, but no one ever really has gone any more deeply into it than 
> that, and I have to say that does suit me, because if I talk too 
> freely about that I think the intelligent reader, whether 10 or 60, 
> will be able to guess what's coming in the books.''

Geoff:
I might be totally wrong but I quoted this before and have always 
taken a measure of hope from it:

"In years to come, Harry would never quite remember how he had 
managed to get through his exams when he half expected 
Voldemort to come bursting through the door at any moment."

(PS "Through the Trapdoor" p.189 UK edition)

I don't think he had time for these retrospective thoughts in his 
Hogwarts years - he was too busy dodging bludgers, Inquisitors, 
Voldemorts and proto-Voldemorts.

Geoff 
Life member of IWHTLC.