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

[Renee]

No: HPFGUIDX 160237

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant107" <eggplant107 at ...>
wrote:

 I believe JKR just wants to write the best story she possibly can, she
> wants to write a story that people will remember, an epic, a story for
> the ages. 
> 
> And Harry living happily ever after just won't do the trick. The fact
> that a reader loves the hero makes his death all the more powerful;
> Homer understood this, Shakespeare too. 
> 

Renee:
Yes, Homer understood this when he made the Iliad. And then he
promptly forgot it when he made the Odyssey. An epic for the ages in
which the hero does not die but is happily reunited with his wife and son.

Of course not everyone agreed. So someone who believed that popular
epic heroes ought to die, made a sequel in which Odysseus is
inadvertently killed by a son who doesn't know him. 

But that's not the story people remember best. 

Renee

p.s., to bring this on topic again: if Harry were a real tragic hero,
he'd bring about his own death through an error of judgement or
because of a fatal character flaw. That's how it usually works with
tragic heroes.