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harry potter not necessarily safe in book 7

Chundles said:
When's it due?

If it's due later this year and I find out I haven't graduated (again) then I'll have been studying for the same degree for the span of three Harry Potter books, two star wars and the whole Lord of the Rings....

That's embarrassing...
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The rumor mill says next summer, possibly coinciding with the release of the film version of Order of the Phoenix.

As for who might be snuffing it, I'm putting $2 down on Ginny Weasley. People are putting way too much stock in the prophecy, which is exactly what Rowling wants from us. She's also said time and time again via characters that 1) death is not the worst defeat one can suffer and 2) the prophecy could very well be a big fat squishy red herring.
 
Frankly I'd be hugely disappointed if she killed of Harry. Especially as his life runs like:
Parents get murdered
First 10 years of life are spent under teh roof of basically abusive Aunt and Uncle
Find out someone wants him dead - and has to deal with the effects every school term
Godfather dies (after being robbed of the chance of being a major player in Harry's life)
Whiteout in case anyone hasn't read the last book:Mentor and father figure dies
Now he dies? Way way to harsh. Harry needs to have a life at some point.
If Ron or Hermione go I'll be just as disappointed... it'll take the shine of the books IMO. I'd feel robbed.
 
i heard them talking about this on howard stern.

i am not a harry potter fan, never read any of the books or saw any of the movies, but i think it is a good idea. other people would ruin it.

a good example i can think of is the scary movie. the 1st two were hysterical b/c they starred and were directed/written by wayans bros. the 3rd and 4th were absolutely horrific b/c they just didnt have the same feel.

the books would not be any different.
 
If she does kill Harry, I think it will be with a happy ending. By that, I mean he may move onto a better place where he can be with those he has lost but at the same time that would remove him from his very close friends. *shrug*

I will be less surprised if either Hermione, Malfoy or Ron get killed, though it would be a shame. I think Malfoy has some good left in him and ultimately he will die on fighting for "the good side" along with Snape.
 
CompUser said:
I honestly think if Harry were to die, there would be a couple people, somewhere,that commit suicide. I am not even joking.
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Scary isn't it? How such trivial things can affect some peoples lives to such an extent? You dead right, Harry Potter is a huge phenomenon, and with huge phenomenon comes people so emotionally tied to them that their lives aren't worth living without it.

So I hereby state Shamus's First Law of HP:

"Harry Potters livelihood is equally and directly proportional to the livelihood of JK Rowling."

Ive been reading physics books non stop for the last 2 weeks, excuse my physics approach :p
 
My guesses:-

I don't think Harry will go, but there's at least one Weasley who's going to bite it. My money's on Arthur.

As for the other, I think right at the end Snape is going to sacrifice himself to allow Harry to kill Voldemort. Malfoy is also going to do something spectacularly unlike his normal behaviour, but I think he'll survive to tell the tale.
 
dynamicv said:
My guesses:-

I don't think Harry will go, but there's at least one Weasley who's going to bite it. My money's on Arthur.

As for the other, I think right at the end Snape is going to sacrifice himself to allow Harry to kill Voldemort. Malfoy is also going to do something spectacularly unlike his normal behaviour, but I think he'll survive to tell the tale.
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Yeah about Snape and I'm banking on Ron or Hermoine too, but for some reason I think it would ruin the ending for that friendship to be broken up.

Obviously we "are dealing with pure evil" but I think that the ending will kind of suck if the three friends aren't together at the end.

So hey, what if Voldy doesn't die at then end?

That would be messed.
 
Sharewaredemon said:
Yeah about Snape and I'm banking on Ron or Hermoine too, but for some reason I think it would ruin the ending for that friendship to be broken up.
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That's why I'm betting on a Weasley character being killed off. Over the past couple of books the entire family has been playing a larger and larger role. They're close enough now to the centre of the action for the readers to really feel it if one of them dies.

It's not going to be Ron and Hermione. They have to survive so they can get it on :)

And Voldemort not dying? Could happen, but unlikely. I've also been thinking that he'll be severely weakened at the end and the Dementors could turn on him. Nasty.
 
dynamicv said:
And Voldemort not dying? Could happen, but unlikely. I've also been thinking that he'll be severely weakened at the end and the Dementors could turn on him. Nasty.
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Well it seems so certain that he will be defeated to the point of cliché. Perhaps the two characters that will die are Ron and Hermoine and Harry will JOIN Voldertmort's side.

ha.

Anyway, yeah I think the a Weasley dying would work.
 
Sharewaredemon said:
Well it seems so certain that he will be defeated to the point of cliché. Perhaps the two characters that will die are Ron and Hermoine and Harry will JOIN Voldertmort's side.

ha.

Anyway, yeah I think the a Weasley dying would work.
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@Vader: I am your father luke...

Harry can't be the last horcrux. He was going to be killed to be the last horcrux. Besides Voldemort was intent on killing him in GoF so he wouldn't be the horcrux.

My money is on Ron and Hermione.

Harry may or may not die. She said she understood the temptation to kill the character but it just doesn't feel right. She has such a keen grasp of the balance of a narrative.

Worst possible ending:Harry wakes up in the cupboard under the stairs in Privet Drive and the whole thing was a dream.

If JK does more books after this, Harry should only play the sort of tangential role that McGonigal or Dumbledore plays.
 
Xander562 said:
Any Harry Potter buff, such as myself, can say, there's no way to bring someone back from the dead, even in the magical world.
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Until she creates it - she made up the whole world, so even being an expert, you still don't know everything. I'm not ruling anything out....

D
 
MongoTheGeek said:
If JK does more books after this, Harry should only play the sort of tangential role that McGonigal or Dumbledore plays.
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Nah. After book seven she should take a couple of years off to get something new together, all new characters, settings, philosophy, everything. She's never going to have the sort of success again that the current books have given her, but I'm sure as long as people are reading her work, she'll be happy to keep writing. In the meantime, the several hundred million pounds in the bank can't be a bad thing :cool:
 
I think it would be cool if she wrote books in the "Harry Potter" Universe but not related to him.

She could write books that were only one book long (not series) and they could take place in the future or past of the events of the 7 books.

Flesh out the world a little better.

Like make a book with the founding of Hogwarts or make a book 20 years (in the timeline) after the end of book 7.

Yeah Harry isn't the last horcrux, I never thought he was.

I'm excited to see what Snape and Draco are up to in this book.
 
dynamicv said:
Nah. After book seven she should take a couple of years off to get something new together, all new characters, settings, philosophy, everything. She's never going to have the sort of success again that the current books have given her, but I'm sure as long as people are reading her work, she'll be happy to keep writing. In the meantime, the several hundred million pounds in the bank can't be a bad thing :cool:
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Sorry. I meant more books in the Harry Potter world. She should wait at least 6 or 7 years to do that.

Whats next? I think I can see her doing a murder mystery.
 
MongoTheGeek said:
Sorry. I meant more books in the Harry Potter world. She should wait at least 6 or 7 years to do that.

Whats next? I think I can see her doing a murder mystery.
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Maybe she should write a kid's TV series. That would be a great way to become quickly known for something else. Can you imagine any country in the world where they wouldn't screen it? Well maybe not Vatican City or Iran hoho
 
unfaded said:
She said she would kill off two characters. Below is my theory, in white writing, so only people who really want to know can know:

***Harry is the last horcrux. The prophesy said as long as one lives, the other shall too. Harry will have to sacrifice himself to kill off Voldemort for good. The. End.***
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You know, for someone with the name "unfaded", your writing sure is hard to read. ;)
 
OutThere said:
Even if he were to die in the 7th book, the series would be left open ended...so much has been hinted about as to existence after death.

Anyway, Dumbledore didn't actually die, and Snape is on the good side. But I won't go into detail...
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Yes, Snape is on the good side, but Dumbledore did die. It's just that he knew he would have to, so he and Severus decided to use the event to trick Voldemort into believing that Snape was a loyal Death Eater.

Now that Voldemort trusts Snape, Severus will betray Voldemort at the last minute, saving Harry Potter in the process.
 
Correct me if I'm wrong -

How can Snape be on the good side that he murdered Dumbledore and kidnapped Malfoy leaving a cliffhanger in Book 6 that Book 7 will probably see Harry tracking down Snape the fugitive and possibly rescuing Malfoy?
 
oldnavy1918 said:
These are the only people she could kill off......Ron...
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I've never read a single HP book but this is what all my HP-reading friends are convinced will happen.
 
dejo said:
All the other crazy, magical stuff that happens in the world of Harry Potter and they won't be able to bring back Harry? Yeah, right...
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OMG! It's going to be Bobby Ewing in the shower again! :eek: :eek:
 
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