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I hate to drop this little Potter development on my dear, optimistic friend Joyce, but bookies in England have stopped taking bets on whether Harry will live or die because EVERY bet was coming in that Harry will die. NOW, they're taking bets on WHO will kill him, Voldemort or Snape. |
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Posted by Joyce Saenz Harris @ 2:57 PM Tue, Jun 05, 2007
Nancy, you are never going to convince me that JKR will kill off Harry Potter, "The Boy Who Lived."
Especially not now that he's going to have a theme park of his own! What, do you really think they'd open an interactive thrill-ride called "Harry's Funeral Procession"? Not bloody likely.
No, I think Harry's going to live. (And what's more, the expert Potterheads at MuggleNet.com agree with me.) I'll only believe otherwise when I read it with my own myopic eyes.
Besides, it's a well-known fact that all British bookies are killjoys and pessimists who would put their own grandmothers' names into a death pool, if it paid 50 to 1...
Posted by Bill M. @ 9:24 AM Wed, Jun 06, 2007
There might be a middle way, here. Perhaps Harry has to die as a wizard in order to live as a normal boy.
Posted by Nancy Churnin @ 9:50 AM Wed, Jun 06, 2007
Ooh, Joyce, Bill, it's two against one! The Brits should have come to the DMN to take their bets!!!! Listen, I want Harry to survive as much as you both do. But after doing a story on the growing Christian support for Harry Potter, I just have a feeling that Harry is going to be called on to make the ultimate martyr sacrifice (just as those he loves and admires most have done: from his parents to Sirius to Dumbledore). Over and over we keep hearing that death is just the next great adventure, that there are more important things than living forever (which is Voldemort's goal, and we all know how Voldemort -- flight from death -- turned out)...
Posted by Nancy Churnin @ 5:56 PM Wed, Jun 06, 2007
Joyce, I agree with you that Snape could pull a Sydney Carton. I believe he is good (though tormented) and has been protecting Harry all along without Harry knowing or understanding. (It would be dangerous if Harry knew since Voldemort can enter his mind). BUT, I do think there's an ongoing theme here about people for whom there is something more important than life and others, like Voldemort and the Death Eaters, who will do any evil thing to escape death. I believe that Harry is a Horcrux and I think at one point an otherwise destroyed Voldemort (down to his last Horcrux -- Harry) will try to take over his body. Harry will prefer to be destroyed along with Voldemort than to live with Voldemort inside him. I think it might even be possible that Peter Pettigrew (like Gollum whom he resembles in Lord of the Rings) could do the deed. And, I think the Horcrux will be destroyed with Harry dying afterwards so he will have a few moments of living without a piece of Voldemort inside him. As he is dying, the scar will fade. It is said the last word is scar. I think the last sentence will be something to the effect of Look! Someone will point and they will say they can no longer see the scar. (There is a precedent for this moment, too, in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birthmark," one of my favorite stories).