Harry dies?

[Bruce Alan Wilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 171418

Do you remember Houseman's poem "To an Athlete Dieing Young".  It tells of a
young man who drops dead on the finish line as he wins an important race.
Houseman says that the young man is lucky because he'll always be the
winner--he'll never loose, he'll never get old and fat, he'll never become a
has-been.  I think that there is something to that if Harry should die in the
process of or the aftermath of defeating Voldemort.  We'd not see Harry getting
a big head from his celebrity.  We'd never see Harry getting bored because, like
Alexander, he had no more worlds to conquer.  We never see Harry turning into
someone like Ludo Bagman, trading on his ever-more-wilted laurels.  We never see
him becoming old and forgotten, boring his grandkids and their friends with
stories of How I Defeated the Dark Lord.

All that being said, I too hope that Harry will survive and thrive.

Bruce Alan Wilson

"The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.  Other forms of
transport grow daily more nightmarish.  Only the bicycle remains pure in
heart."--Iris Murdoch



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