I think Harry will die (was: I don't think that Harry will die)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 160201

Eggplant:
> Suppose Harry lives happily ever after, a week after you finish
> reading book 7 you'll hardly think about it at again; but if Harry
> dies in Ginny's arms covered in blood from grievous wounds received in
> his heroic battle with Voldemort I'll bet you'll still be thinking
> about it for a long time.  Suppose JKR wrote a conclusion that would
> give Stephen King nightmares, now that would be an interesting thing
> for a "children's writer" to do.
> 

Pippin:
But it seems to be the moral issues that JKR wants us to think about,
not the horrors of death. She doesn't seem to want her readers to 
fear death that comes at the end of a life well-lived. What would
stay with us, I think, is a Harry who had achieved victory but who
would be haunted all his life by the  things he could have done 
that might have saved those who were lost. 

Tolkien had lost all but one of his close friends by 1918. He didn't
force Frodo to go through that. But JKR brags about the chip of ice
in her heart. 

Pippin