Request (Harry live or die?).

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 159328

Eggplant wrote:
> I think that's true, and that's exactly why I think Harry will die 
The entire point of being a writer is to touch people's emotions, so
> how could JKR resist the temptation to create a worldwide emotional
> earthquake of that magnitude? 
> 


Tonks:
Harry is going to have a near death experience, but come thru it to 
live a rich and full life.  He is not going to go from being 
the `boy who lived' to the `young man who died'.  If Harry is 
everyman then he is here to give a message to all of us.  I think 
that message is that we should all live life to the fullest.  I can 
see JKR wanting to spread a message like that after watching her 
mother die. "I came that they might have life, and have it 
abundantly."

As to DD.  I do think that he is a Christ figure (but not Jesus, 
there is a difference), but I am uncertain if it is he or Fawkes who 
will return.  I see Fawkes as the symbol of the Holy Spirit and it 
might make sense for Fawkes to come back, and for DD to be the Saint 
that Harry can ask for help from the other side. One way or another 
I am certain that we will see a resurrection of someone in the last 
book. 

Tonks_op
who would bet a years worth of butterbeer that the last book will be 
called "Harry Potter and the return of the Phoenix".