Killing Harry

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 175422

Eggplant: 
> The real beauty of the book is that if you want Harry dead you can
> have him dead, just rip out the last 53 pages of the book so that 
the
> entire Potter saga ends on page 704 with the words "He saw the mouth
> move and a flash of green light, and everything was gone."

Potioncat:
Yes, that and the fact that Harry expected to die. He had no idea he 
might survive; he didn't go into it expecting to trick LV.

By that point, I had no idea what was going to happen. Everything 
seemed to be so horrible. I think JKR did a pretty good job of 
surprising us (OK,  surprising me.)


>Eggplant: 
> What sort of reception do you suppose the book would have received 
if
> JKR hadn't written those last 53 pages?
> 

Potioncat:
Well, the people at Universal who signed the amusement park deal 
would be pretty upset.  ;-)