I don't think that Harry will die

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 160159

> Magpie:
> I agree.  Harry will not die because as a character he's just not 
> been created in such a way that his death will have as much meaning 
> as someone like Frodo.  Frodo was an adult with a mature outlook on 
> life and death.  If Harry were to die I think it would be a more 
> immature outlook--he died gloriously because he was fighting.  I'm 
> not explaining this well, but it's like...it's not real.  It's 
> looking at death like it's cool because it's not real.  It's more 
> just a cool way to go if you're imagining it--"I hope I die before I 
> get old" or "it'd be cool to go down in a hail of bullets" and all 
> that.  <snip>

Carol responds:

Just a note to support the view that a "blaze of glory" death is
unlikely. In OoP, Hagrid tries to comfort Harry by saying that Sirius
would have wanted to die in battle; Harry retorts that Sirius didn't
want to die at all. If JKR (whose viewpoint Harry seems to be
expressing here) feels that way about a secondary character, surely
she feels the same way about her hero. She's repeatedly talked about
how much she's tortured him. I think she'll make it up to him, and her
child readers, by letting him truly be the Boy ("Man") Who Lived."

Sidenote to Eggplant:

If one of her chapters is entitled "The Man Who Died," at least half
of her readers will throw the book away unread. I don't think she'd
give away that much in a chapter title. (Note how misleading "Felix
Felicis" was.)

Carol, who thinks that killing Harry off would be to choose the easy
way out rather than the right way to end the book