[HPforGrownups] I don't think that Harry will die

[nmangle at cox.net]

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> pumpkinpastie18 wrote:
> >
> > Despite that she has killed beloved characters and that there are more
> > deaths to come, I just can't imagine Rowling ever killing off Harry.
> > Why? Because Harry = hope. He's the Boy Who Lived and I can't see
> > Rowling ending the series on such an awful, tragic note. If the Boy Who
> > Lived died after everything, it would send out a message that there is
> > no hope and, while obviously I have no right to claim what she thinks
> > and believes, I just can't see Jo writing such a tragic, despairing
> > ending to a series which has been all about a boy trying to find his
> > place in the world.
> 
> 
> montims:
> Well, you know, it all depends HOW he dies...  If he dies saving the WW and
> is then reunited with his parents, Sirius, and such of his fellow students
> that also get chopped, it might not be such a bad deal...  Writers do kill
> off their darlings - see Little Nell for probably the most famous example -
> and people do die in RL (OK, that's obvious - I meant in an untimely and/or
> tragic manner)...




To both above,
First of all, I had to keep in the first post on this because I haven't heard it put that way before, and I love it!!  Hope, Boy Who Lived, of course he has to live!    Personally, my son is 10 and he reads the books too, of course after I finish them, but he reads them and he told me that Harry not making it to the end of the book would just make him mad for even reading the series.  He said as a kid, why would I read a whole series of books if the main kid in it dies?  I told him that isn't the point and the series is just a really good series. 
Honestly whether or not its killing Voldemort or what, I can't imagine the death of Harry Potter being less than ultimately dissapointing to every reader she has ever captured.  Really, reading Harry Potter takes me into a whole different world than reality and that is a place I can escape to.  As a parent of a child who reads the books, and as someone who escapes with the books, Harry truely is the Boy Who lived, he gives hope to the Wizarding World that the Dark Lord  and his reign will die.

Done rambling.. 

nmangle