Harry...will he be killed?

[laundry basket]

So, we all have our opinions about the fate of Harry Potter in the final book, all boiling down to two simple choices: will he live or will he die? What to you guys think?

[mcgonagallrocks]

Dudes I keep saying with the exception of one book I've read they never kill the important good guys. (Albus is not dead) Harry isn't gonna die.

[childminerva]

It would be a poor way to end the series...though to be honest (and don't hurt me please) I wouldn't be heartbroken. Harry is not and has never been my favorite character and so long as JKR wrote it in a believable way, I wouldn't mind it if he died.
But no, I don't think she will kill him.

[Ashlynn Minerva Rose]

I agree with chilminerva. i'm almost 99% sure (intuition wise, not facts) && u knw what they say about women's intuition...

[ιady ταвz]

me too..but its too expected for him to die so she might turn the whole thing around like she usually does and do something spontaenous...so no, he wont die

[McGonagallsGirl]

Nah, he won't die. I kind of wish he would, though.
I know, that sounds mean.
But he annoys me a lot, and (as the book is told from his percpective) it's his fault we don't see more of Minerva and Dumbledore.

[StormAngel]

Harry won't die... I think...

[tabbygirl]

I don't think he will. My mom is always teasing me about it. She's saying she knows how dies and that she has her sources and she won't tell me.

[childminerva]

I'd rather Harry died than Ron or Hermione...I would prefer him to be the other death rather than someone we all really like!

[beMMADfabulous]

I dunno. I'm like a few of you, I wouldn't mind either way. I'm not sure how I feel about this. In a way, I don't think JK would kill the hero in her series. Wouldn't that be a little pointless? However, if Harry did die, it'd actually give Trelawney another chance to be correct about something. haha

[Apocalypticat]

Does it make me mean to say that I hope so? I like Harry a little more than is the general consensus, simply because of the (HUGELY CUTE... ahem) AD-HP grandfather/son thing going on, but I think the series would be more tragically beautiful for it.

I'm doubtful that he will, but my theory on how Harry will kill Volders certainly leaves the way open:

They go beyond the Veil.

[childminerva]

yes...I do believe the veil will return. Death is, after all, the next great adventure. Perhaps Harry will go beyond the veil and therefore die, but the story will continue once he is on the other side. hmm...maybe.

[beMMADfabulous]

I know this sounds crazy, but what if Harry could briefly go behind the veil without dying?

[ιady ταвz]

that would be cool, i hope we find out more

[EloquentPhoenix]

I don't think he'll die, that's not what it's really about I don't think. Nor, actually, do I think Voldemort will be killed, but might die because battle/destroying the Horcruxes. I think he might get the dementors kiss.

Harry won't die, he'll be the 'hero' of war. It won't turn out well for him, how can it? But I don't think he'll die. He'll live on, maybe at Hogwarts since it's the first place he called home.

[Drake]

I think he's a Horcrux and has to die. Albus himself said Horcruxes could be living things, and I think a lot of what he was doing in Book 6 was preparation for telling Harry that he was a Horcrux, but then Snivellus MURDERED him, so he didn't get a chance.

Goes against popular thinking, but oh, well.

[nemi]

I don't really think Harry's going to die. It has been all over the Internet for quite some time that Harry is probably going to be a Horcrux. If Jo puts this into the seventh book then it'll completely diminish her as an author.

That's not to say that the Horcrux theory is a bad one, I think it's a perfectly acceptable theory and I can understand perfectly why people believe it. In fact, I used it in one of my own stories. I just think that BECAUSE it's such a definite, well-thought-out, acceptable, plausible, sensible theory, Jo should come up with some other, outlandish, more spectacular end to a spectacular series.

All through books 1-4, and to some extent 5, no one could have possibly predicted what was going to happen. With book 6 however, despite it being an absolutely engrossing book*, it was fairly obvious when the title came out what the instant reaction was going to be: Harry or Voldemort. And when Jo said it wasn't them, it clearly wasn't going to take long for the finger to be pointed at the one most "unlikely" person whose heritage had not been explained: Severus Snape. That couldn't have been said for "Chamber of Secrets", no one could have possibly said who the "Prisoner of Azkaban" was and you couldn't say it was because the character's name hadn't been mentioned (it had, in the first ever chapter of the series), the "Goblet of Fire" was equally ambiguous and even "Order of the Phoenix" could have been interpreted in numerous ways. Although no one would have really worked out the true meaning of the word 'prince' in the 6th title, it was easy enough to pin down a suspect, and having read the book: albeit clever, the pun was rather predictable. The previous titles had left fans speculating much more and they had only made a statement, there had been no puns, and the "Prisoner of Azkaban" was obviously a prisoner in a place called Azkaban, and yet that title and its following book were much more unexpectedly linked.

Killing Harry off as a Horcrux in the 7th book makes a lot of sense to us. It makes a lot of sense in fanfiction, and it makes some really good reading. But books are only supposed to make sense to their authors until they come out. That's what makes them a good read, and what keeps you turning the pages. And that's why JK Rowling, as a beloved, well-respected spinner of ideas (and I phrase that deliberately to pay my dues to my mother, who is of the invariable opinion that JKR is a plagiarist of a rather long list of things) should spin some more unexpected ideas for the final installment of what is undeniably the most popular smash hit in modern literature - her own ideas or not.

* you'd only have to ask my non-HP-fanatic friend, who had to endure sitting next to me on a veeery long coach journey across Europe. I had my nose stuck inside it all the way there, only speaking to rage/sulk/squee/whinge/cry my eyes out about the plot.

[Drake]

Wow. Spiffy rant. I applaud you. ;D

There are some really obvious references to his Horcruxiness, though, especially in OotP when he thinks he's being posessed. JKR never adequately answered WHY he was having those symptoms. (For me, at least.)

Also, she kinda gave it away a little on her site, methinks. She was responding to rumors regarding the exact wording of the prophecy, and she said something about wording it very carefully, and then left it at that.

I agree, though, if JKR comes up with something better/more fitting than the Harcrux theory, well, I expected nothing less.

[Drake]

Mione's long gone though. I can't even count how many times JKR's alluded to her "vulnerability" in interviews....

Poor Mione.

But I agree, I really don't like Harry. He does too many stupid things. And better Harry then, say, my White Princely Warrior Noble Bumblebee.

Oh no, wait.....

Too late!

And I would totally spazz if Percy died. Post-OotP-Percy, Ernie Macmillan, Dumbledore, Sirius, Tonks and Remus are my favorite characters, and most of them are dead/probably gonna die. Especially Remus. My poor little Moony.....

[Drake]

*internet hugs back*

Good for you. I was never in denial, only shock.

It'd be really nice if he was alive, but I just don't want to get my hopes up. 13 years of living in a moderate climate does that to ya, they SAY it's gonna storm and we're gonna cancel school and play in the snow and frolick and there's gonna be rainbows and teddy nears and unicorns but noooooooooooooo..... it always just rains and is freezing cold but we have to walk to the mobiles ANYWAY and all die of pnemonia.

Ahem.

[Leaves of Green]

I don't think he will really be killed... and if so, he'll take voldy down with him!

[furandfeathers]

I had this discussion with my mother the other day. Of course she didn't really have any idea what I was talking about...lol

I think that she's (J.K. Rowling) become cocky enough to kill off Harry, however a lot of people actually like him (not me so much) and she probably would never sell another book if she did.

I do like the theory of going beyond that veil, that would be cool and would tie up Sirius' story better. I don't like that he just fell through and now he's gone. He was so important to the story that I think he should be brought back, or at least more neatly packaged.

And I did always kind of feel that Harry was a Horcrux, and if she's going to kill him, that would be the way to do it.

So in conclusion, I have no idea if he's going to live or not, and that was a lot of rambling. Sorry about that

[piwakette]

Well, my Mother (who hasn't read any of the books, but did see a couple movies) thinks JKR will kill Harry off so no one else can continue the books after her. Just look at what happened to "Gone With The Wind," when the copyright expired -- the disaster of "Scarlett."

As an adult fan of the books, I think that would be a horrible thing to do to the millions of children all over the world who love Harry Potter, but anything's possible.

[acting101]

JK pretty much told everyone not to expect Harry to survive the series, I don't want him to die but i think its going to happen no matter what we want. Personally if he dies i say we stock JK

[mmadlyinlove]

I highly doubt he'll die.

~mmadlyinlove~

[MinervaMcGonagall]

Hopefully (I don't like Harry), but I doubt it. She would get so much hate mail.

[tartanmin]

mmadlyinlove said:

I highly doubt he'll die.

~mmadlyinlove~

Me too.. But it's J.K we are talking about she could turn it all over on a stick.
We just have to wait, and for my behalf to October...
You can't imagine how long there is to
October

[hpimperfections]

mcgonagallrocks said:

Dudes I keep saying with the exception of one book I've read they never kill the important good guys. (Albus is not dead) Harry isn't gonna die.

Sorry to disappoint...I seriously, seriously, seriously doubt that JKR is going to kill any of the boring, minor, irrelevant characters. So far the pattern has been that people who give Harry support get killed off because Harry has to do things on his own. First Sirius, then Albus...The next people (yes, more than one person!) to die will definitely be important. I'm betting on Snape, Draco Malfoy, Voldemort, Harry, and :(Lupin.