[HPforGrownups] Harry's death, Snape's sacrifice (was Re: Predictions abo...

[Kim]

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>Sandy emotes-
Bottom line -- if Harry dies I am done with the books and would never read another word JKR wrote. It isn't eloquent, but it's the pure unvarnished truth that would come from an emotional let-down of the first water.


>From Kim:
You go Sandy!  
I'm burying my 2 week old grandson on Tuesday.  Life is full of hell.  If we can't celebrate the life of the major characters in this series of books then I'm through too.  How many years of energy we've put into them!  I can't bear already that Dumbledore is gone.  Ron, Hermione, Harry, Neville, Snape, Lupin, Luna, the Weasleys, I really hope that all of them will survive triumphant.  I really love McGonnegal and have connected with her character from day one but I somehow see her as dying, perhaps because she's lived a long life and would die fighting spectacularly.  But the kids, no.  If they go, I go.  If my little one has to lose one of her fictional heros who's story she's read 4 times just after her dreams of helping raise a nephew are destroyed, it will be too hard, just too cruel.  And there are a lot of kids like her.  A lot of adults like me.  We've lost so much in our lives.  That's what life is about.  But this is fiction and in fiction the heros are allowed to live.

Fan fiction (I do want to start reading some of that) can go crazy taking these young adults to all sorts of future adventures if they're allowed to live.  And for those of us who daydream, our daydreams can take them there too.  But if they're killed, then it ends there.  And that would be just too sad.
Kim

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