Who do you think will die in the last book?.

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 168245

> Eggplant:
> 
> I realize almost everybody on this list wants Harry to live, but they
> also want book 7 to be as good as it's possible to be. I believe these
> two wishes are incompatible. A good work or art should tie your
> emotions into a knot and Harry's death would do exactly that.
> 
> 
> Lynda:
> 
> As would many many other possible storyline/plot twists. Harry's 
death just
> isn't the only possible way to end the book and still have it be 
a "good
> work of art".

Alla:

Yep, I brought couple of times before the example of Odyssey as 
being "good work of art", to put it mildly, where the hero survives and 
comes home and the one which I love dearly.

I also remember studying the Epic of Gilgamesh, when I was in school 
and do not think that Gilgamesh dies in any versions of it either.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh

While I do not keep this one in my personal library at home that was 
certainly not due to the fact that I do not like it, quite the contrary.

I think both of those count as good literature, LOL and Rowling's work 
can be counted as such regardless of whether Harry lives or dies.

Whether Harry lives or dies , I think is just personal preference, 
nothing more than that.

But when argument is made that **unless** Harry dies, Rowling's work 
just cannot be a good literature, well, I would like more support for 
that.

JMO,

Alla