CHAPDISC: 34, The Forest Again.

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 185032

Marianne

I talked to a couple of people that said JKR took the easy way out
and not killed off Harry in the end. One man actually told me he
thought JKR was a coward for not killing Harry.

However, for me it couldn't end in his death. I guess I'm a sucker
for a happy ending.

Potioncat:
I can understand the other deaths in the series, even if I don't like 
them, but I don't think killing off Harry would have been fitting 
ending for the series. Here's a JKR interview that explains her 
reasoning in keeping Harry alive. You can find the rest of her 
thoughts at the link.

http://harryahistory.com/2008/10/on-harrys-survival.html

JKR: In many ways it would have been a neater ending to kill him. For 
sure, I knew that all along. felt that the books' overriding message 
was that love is the most powerful force in this world. My model with 
Harry really was war veterans, who have seen horrors and are asked to 
go home and rebuild, and go back to ordinary life and care for a 
family, be a father - particularly be a father - [it is] a difficult 
job, in troubled times. 


http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/185029

> zanooda, who always thought that Eggplant was a "he"

Eggplant:
I thought I cleared up that confusion in a previous post when I told
the world that my real first name is "Pat".

Potioncat:
Oh, eggplant, you have a wicked sense of humor!

 At least in the US, the name Pat is as likely to be male as female.