I don't think that Harry will die

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 160157

Sarah wrote:
> > 
> > But if he = hope now, what will he = after his job is done, is my
> > question.  I'd rather see him go out in a blaze of glory, than end 
> up washed up.  Tons of hero stories end up with the hero joining the
> > glorious dead after successfully completing their quests.  Neo,
> > Hercules, the Pevensies, Frodo and Harry would all be more boring 
> if they went home and got government jobs after.
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Why boring? I do not agree at all - normal happy life, something 
> that Harry craves IMO, something that would be of the sort of the 
> reward, besides if you do not like reading about his post Voldemort 
> **life** which I hope will exist, I am sure JKR will deal with it in 
> a few sentences in epilogue - married Ginny, had twelve kids, 
> etc :), or at least that is the epilogue I want to see, hehe.
>

Carol responds:
For once I'm in unqualified agreement with Alla. (I hope that won't
ccause her to change her mind!) As Bilbo says in "Fellowship of the
Ring," "and he lived happily ever afterwards to the end of his days  
. . . is a good ending, and none the worse for having been used before."

Harry will almost certainly lose the powers that he acquired from
Voldemort, but I see no reason why he should lose the powers he was
born with and live as a Muggle, much lose his life and cause children
everywhere to refuse to read the HP books because they know that the
kid hero is going to die in the end. Aside from her own feelings about
Harry, I can't see JKR causing that kind of grief to millions of
children, or depriving herself of a future audience.

Even though I'm not sure that having twelve kids like Ginny and the
Twins would qualify as a happy ending for most people in RL, I think
that Harry and Ginny could handle it and be happy. Certainly, it
wouldn't be boring! And Harry has frequently expressed a desire to be
an Auror (JKR has said that teaching at Hogwarts wouldn't be exciting
enough for him, but there would still be plenty of Dark Wizards left
to catch--not all of them in the UK, which after all is a very small
country). Why not let him do what he wants to do, with adventures
still to come and only hinted at in the epilogue?

Carol, ardently hoping for a happy ending for HRH, as many Weasleys as
possible, and (however unlikely it may be) Severus Snape