I don't think that Harry will die

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 160116

Cat wrote:
>    
>   How beautifully eloquent! Harry = Hope. I totally agree Hope can
not die. After everything he has been through, all dangers and
sorrows, he has never given up. He has earned and deserves a long and
happy life!
>    
>   If, per chance, Harry does die, grief would envelope the world,
just as if a non-literary icon had died. Remember the world-wide grief
when Princess Diana died? Well, I believe  that the impact would be
greater. I know that I would be devastated!  Then the cry of outrage
would be deafening, I am afraid that JKR would have to leave the planet. 
>    
>   Long Live Harry!

Carol responds:
Maybe not leave the planet but at least take refuge in Brazil as she
facetiously suggested after the Mark Evans debacle. Seriously, I think
that her immense satisfaction in having encouraged so many nonreading
children to read is sufficient to prevent her from killing off Harry
because few children would want to read about a kid hero they knew was
going to die at the end of the seventh book--and word would get around
faster than the spoiler that Darth Vader was Luke's father. (The
remark in the interview about authors sometimes killing off characters
to keep others from writing about them has to be facetious as well,
given copyright protection and her awareness of the plethora of fanfic
on the Internet.)

Look at the Prophecy: "Neither can live while the other survives.
Voldemort can't live, i.e., be fully human, with a body other than the
snake-faced one he now has, or genuinely immortal while Harry
survives. The Chosen One can (and will) destroy him. Harry can't be
"Just Harry," an ordinary young wizard with the powers native to him
(to borrow Tolkien's language)--no painful visions, no Parseltongue,
no other as yet unidentified Dark powers, such as possession, derived
from Voldemort--while Voldemort survives. I predict that, once
Voldemort is defeated, Harry will deal with a temporary burst of fame
(no big deal to the Boy Who Lived, who's had to endure the alternating
love and hatred of a fickle public since he was eleven) and then
settle down to the exciting but not extraordinary life of an Auror in
training. That, after all, is what he wants to do, as the books have
made abundantly clear. And he'll get together with Ginny because JKR
thinks she's Harry's "perfect match," even if many of us fans don't
much like her.

Carol, willing to bet every Knut she possesses that JKR will reward
her hero with a happy life as recompense for all the suffering she's
put him through