well think of this it owuld kinda b a disappoint meant to harry if he didnt die. he wouldnt see serius his parent or dd again until he finally sucummed to old age. but if u think about she could jus b playin us. harry and voldy could die this mayb jus to piss us off. bu ti also think lupin and or tonks will die and snape mayb i think the 7 book will b a nice time to kill off a lot of main characters...!
Well one will probably be you-know....ah, what the heck...Voldemort(at least i hope he dies).
The other might be....Snape.....yeah, Snape(Harry is furious at him and will probably strangle him with his bare hands if he gets close enough).
And Harry himself might die also.
Then there is Ginny, Ron, Hermione, Neville, Hagrid, Draco(maybe he'll die in service of oldy Voldy), Lupin, the new defense against the dark arts teacher(he/she may be on Harry's side), Loony...ahem...Luna Lovegood.
And as someone mentioned, ol' petey pettigrew might die himself while helping Harry.
I had a feeling since I read the third book that something was gonna happen with pettigrew in it in the end. I think Harry is going to die. I mean, I don't think he'll be able to kill Voldy because of all the horcruxes (hope I spelled that right) he has to hunt down (especially in one year). I think Ron and Hermione might die too.
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Harry and Voldemort. Of course Voldemort has to die. And its very common for the main character in science fiction, the one prophesized to beat the big bag guy, to inevitably pass on or die, a la LOTR with Frodo leaving with the elves. Harry and VOldemort are foils of each other so it makes sense that Harry would die killing Voldemort, self-sacrifice and all that jazz.
Re: News On The Seventh Book!
Originally posted by spiderboy5
JK Rowling has revealed that at least two characters will die in the last novel of the series. I wonder who they are..... hope its not gonna be Harry himself 🙁 . State your opinion of which two characters are going to die.
Hopefully its not ron or hormonie or ron but rons almost been killed off so many times its not funny anymore plus voldermort would kill hermonie off to get to harry !!!!
Re: News On The Seventh Book!
Originally posted by spiderboy5sorry and the second might be snape cuz he has got in to much BS Lately
JK Rowling has revealed that at least two characters will die in the last novel of the series. I wonder who they are..... hope its not gonna be Harry himself 🙁 . State your opinion of which two characters are going to die.
Something interesting that says Harry will live: (It's not Rowling saying it, by the way.)
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry may have prepared Harry Potter to duke it out with Lord Voldemort, but the real test of his survival will be the battle over who actually “owns” Harry – author J.K. Rowling or her fans. According to a British Victorian literature expert, Rowling’s threat to kill at least two main characters in her final book is her way of taking control and is not unlike actions taken by other authors whose books have become extremely popular with readers.In the end, however, Harry will survive, says James Krasner, professor of English and British Victorian literature at the University of New Hampshire. “There's no way Harry will die,” he says. “Harry won't die largely because these are comic stories, like Dickens' novels, in which good has to win.”
“Whenever an author's books become very popular in his or her lifetime, as is the case with Rowling, a tug of war starts between the author and the fans about who the characters really belong to. Rowling, like Conan Doyle (creator of Sherlock Holmes), is trying to assert her control. She’s reminding us that Harry is her character, not ours; she can kill him if she wants to. Doyle actually did kill off Sherlock Holmes, but Rowling won’t go that far because she cares about Harry. Conan Doyle was really sick of Holmes,” Krasner says.
And it’s not the first time Rowling, who is adept at promoting her books, has threatened to kill off a major character. According to Krasner, Rowling caused a media sensation when she said a “major character” would die in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Rumors targeted Harry’s best friend, Ron Weasley, but in the end, it was Sirius Black, who Krasner says “was an important supporting character, but not really a major character like Ron.”
“Harry won't die because Rowling's too good of a storyteller to completely undercut her genre. She's an extraordinarily careful plotter, not unlike Dickens, and she has worked very hard to make all the books emotionally satisfying. Having Harry die would be a miserable plotting failure,” Krasner says.
Rowling employs the genre of British Private Boy School novels, a popular writing style of 19th century Britain but one that may be unfamiliar to most Americans. The classic novel of this genre is Tom Brown's Schooldays, set in the Rugby School for Boys. “The stock characters in these stories are very similar to those in Harry Potter. There's the serious, good-hearted hero from a modest background, the obnoxious aristocratic kid who lords it over everyone, and the nebishy friend to the hero. The stories tend to focus on rugby games (Quidditch games in Harry Potter) and pranks that take place in the dorms after the lights go out,” Krasner says.
“Rowling's books are very well written, and we're lucky to be around to see them created. Her particular talent is plotting and comic characterization. She's a lot like Dickens in that she does such a good job with comedy, and with predictable plotlines, that she can move into tragedy, and complexity, rather than starting with a tragic mode,” Krasner says.
So if Harry Potter doesn’t die in the final book, who does?
According to Krasner, “Lord Voldemort has to die. And Snape, who is really fighting for good despite all appearances, will likely die. Neville Longbottom is really the chosen one, so I suspect he'll die,” he says.
And readers shouldn’t be surprised if the much-loved Professor Dumbledore, who died in the last book, returns. “Obi-Wan Kenobi, Gandalf-type paternal wise man mentor characters always die. This is a multi-genre convention, turning up in war stories, medieval romances, fantasy, adventure, cop movies, martial arts films. They come back as ghosts,” Krasner says.