Will Harry die after part 7????

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 160071

wickedlysunny wrote:
>
> -Harry will die as there is a chance of him being a horcrux.
> There is a chance that Voldemort had not used the killing curse
> on him. He only made him a horcrux. I think when Harry will find
> this, he will kill himself.
> 
> wickedlysunny
>

Carol responds:

I doubt that Harry will die for simple, pragmatic reason that if word
got around that Harry dies in the seventh book, the majority of child
readers would not want to read the books. Much as we adults enjoy the
books and could endure Harry's death if it were moving and
artistically rendered, kids aren't as flexible. "Harry dies? Why
shoule I read it, then?")

As for Harry being a Horcrux, you could probably spend a day exploring
this list for posts exploring the pros and cons of the accidental
Horcrux theory, but we can flat out reject the idea that Voldemort
would have deliberately made the boy he set out to kill into a Horcrux
containing his soul. The Prophecy says that "the one with the power to
defeat the Dark Lord approaches," and we know that Voldemort set out
to thwart the Prophecy by killing Harry. He says himself that the
reason he couldn't kill Harry is his mother's sacrifice. And we know
that the spell he cast was indeed the Killing Curse (Avada Kedavra).
JKR has said so herself in the 2004 Edinburgh Book Festival interview:

JKR . . . The first question that I have never been asked—it has
probably been asked in a chatroom but no one has ever asked me—is,
"Why didn't Voldemort die?" Not, "Why did Harry live?" but, "Why
didn't Voldemort die?" The killing curse rebounded, so he should have
died. Why didn't he? At the end of Goblet of Fire he says that one or
more of the steps that he took enabled him to survive. You should be
wondering what he did to make sure that he did not die—I will put it
that way. I don't think that it is guessable. . . .

Nothing about a Horcrux spell being cast. Voldie has said that he
tried to kill Harry (as he also did using an AK as his weapon in both
GoF and OoP), and JKR has confirmed that the spell he cast at Godric's
Hollow, the one that rebounded on him, was a Killing Curse. End of
story for deliberate Horcrux theories (though the accidental Horcrux
theorists are undeterred). 

Almost forgot to include the link:

http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/2004/0804-ebf.htm

BTW, I can see why you might think it was some other spell because AKs
don't mark their victims. My own view is that the scar (actually still
a cut when Baby!Harry is placed on the Dursleys' doorstep) was caused
by the deflected spell bursting *outward* with renewed energy
sufficient to blow up Voldermort (and presumably the house as well,
unless that was the result of the secondary explosion when Voldemort's
soul was "ripped from his body"). I'm still not clear as to whether
Godric's Hollow was littered with Voldiebits or whether the body more
or less evaporated. Clearly, it wasn't intact or Vapor!mort would have
repossessed his own body.

Carol, sure that Harry will live and not seeing how that's possible if
he's a Horcrux