Happy endings and locked rooms

[eggplant107]

No: HPFGUIDX 164632

Considering that locked room, the most mysterious thing about it is if
it's just love behind it as most assume then why is it locked? I would
think you'd want to set love free and get into the world. There must
be something besides ordinary vanilla love in that room, love on
steroids or something that makes it downright dangerous. Or maybe the
Ministry wizards didn't lock it and are in fact trying to unlock it,
but without success. Maybe in book 7 Harry will find a way to unlock
it, something even Dumbledore couldn't do. He knows that opening the
door is the only way to destroy Voldemort but Harry also knows that if
he does so he will die too; remember that powerful "old magic"
involves sacrifice. Perhaps in the second to the last chapter, the one
just before epilog where the adult lives of the surviving characters
are described, Harry opens that door and Harry Potter is no more.  

Maybe that also explains the gleam of triumph in GOF seen in
Dumbledore's eye immediately followed by sorrow. Whatever that was
about it seems clear to me it must have involved having a glorious
idea followed by a very sad idea. The most glorious idea I can think
of is a way to defeat Voldemort, the saddest idea I can think of is
Harry's death.  

But even if I'm wrong and the second to last chapter of the last book
is not entitled "The Man Who Died" and Harry survives, do you think
the series will have a happy ending? To put it more concretely, will
you be happy when you read the last page or will you have a tear in
your eye? I think that largely depends on if Harry is happy on the
last page. Personally I think if Harry survives he will be crippled
emotionally and perhaps physically as well.

Eggplant