Apparently two major characters are definatly going to die in the last book and J.K has even hinted one of them may be Harry because she is sick of him!  :o

Apparently two major characters are definatly going to die in the last book and J.K has even hinted one of them may be Harry because she is sick of him!  :o



That thought has crossed my mind. I know she wrote the last chapter to the last book BEFORE the first book was published. I saw an interview with her when she was talking it and saying something about "who will be left"-which I took to mean that a few characters were going to be killed off. I believe that "He who must not be named" HAS to vanquish. This is a story of good vs evil and good ALWAYS has to triumph.



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Then it would make sense that Voldemort would indeed be a "major character" to be killed off. Ooh, JK is a sneaky one! ;)

Read all of them out of the library  except the first I bought for a college course in youth literature and as you say, anxious to see the treatment they gave the book in the next movie and waiting for the last book.
  I thought it felt like a sad sort of way to leave the series after reading half blood prince not realizing she'd already written the final- final book.
The newscaster the other day commented someone had an interview with her and they said she announces on the program the name of the last installment...to which the co-anchor says, "it sounds rather creepy and ominous to me" and I was thinking wait! what's the title? or which program is she speakin on?  I Wasn't paying close attention to the advert. :-\\ So thanks for telling me the title.

Well I did wonder if Harry has to die for Voldermort to die...........................

Well I did wonder if Harry has to die for Voldermort to die...........................



Could be. They kind of balance each other out-the good vs evil thing. You can't have one without the other.




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I don't think Harry will die. Everything that's happened in the Harry Potter series so far has been completely unexpected and that's why people love them. They are unpredictable. But Harry dying is so predictable and kind of expected. So I think that even if the original plan was to have Harry die in the end, Rowling with change this just because that's what everyone expects. Harry wont die.

I've heard some very interesting theories about what will happen in the last book. The most interesting involve time travel (like what Hermione did in Prisoner of Azkaban). There are two very interesting theories involving this concept. One is that the adult Harry Potter goes back in time to the time and place when and where his parents were murdered. Voldemort killls Lilly and Harry and everyone assumes it was Lilly and James who were killed. This means James is still alive and he finds Harry when he's 17-years-old and helps him defeat Voldemort. Another theory is that Dumbledore is actually Harry Potter when he's very old and he came back in time to help his younger self. I like the second theory better because it is stated a lot that the only wizard Voldemort fears is Dumbledore, and that's because Voldemort knows Dumbledore is actually Harry and Harry is the "boy who lived" and everything. I don't know how plausible these theories are, but they are rather interesting none the less.

I don't think Harry will die. Everything that's happened in the Harry Potter series so far has been completely unexpected and that's why people love them. They are unpredictable. But Harry dying is so predictable and kind of expected. So I think that even if the original plan was to have Harry die in the end, Rowling with change this just because that's what everyone expects. Harry wont die.

I've heard some very interesting theories about what will happen in the last book. The most interesting involve time travel (like what Hermione did in Prisoner of Azkaban). There are two very interesting theories involving this concept. One is that the adult Harry Potter goes back in time to the time and place when and where his parents were murdered. Voldemort killls Lilly and Harry and everyone assumes it was Lilly and James who were killed. This means James is still alive and he finds Harry when he's 17-years-old and helps him defeat Voldemort. Another theory is that Dumbledore is actually Harry Potter when he's very old and he came back in time to help his younger self. I like the second theory better because it is stated a lot that the only wizard Voldemort fears is Dumbledore, and that's because Voldemort knows Dumbledore is actually Harry and Harry is the "boy who lived" and everything. I don't know how plausible these theories are, but they are rather interesting none the less.



Hmmmm, very interesting indeed. Talk about food for thought.




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I love Harry Potter - actually I'm addicted to the books. I read all of tem at least once a year!

Book #7: 07/07/07   Movie 07/13/07


Just announced today that the new book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be released on 21 July

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6320733.stm

I love Harry Potter too, and I am not ashamed to admit it!  When they first came out, I resisted reading them because they were children's books, but when I finally gave in I was smitten.  I've read each of them several times.  They are fabulous! 


Ya, Steve kept on telling me to read them.  When I finally did, I was pleasantly surprised.  There is really nothing kiddie about The Order of the Phoenix.  My favorite in the series so far. 

I find it funny, I can go from reading Harry Potter, to the dark and bloody "A Song of Ice and Fire" series by George RR. Martin.  LoL.  But im not ashamed. 

This was in our local paper this morning.


Rowling pleads no one spoil final Potter book

May 15, 2007

By Hillel Italie Associated Press

NEW YORK — J.K. Rowling has a request for those with inside dirt on her seventh and final Harry Potter book: Please keep it to yourself.

"We're a little under three months away, now, and the first distant rumblings of the weirdness that usually precedes a Harry Potter publication can be heard on the horizon," Rowling wrote on her Web site Monday.

"I want the readers who have, in many instances, grown up with Harry, to embark on the last adventure they will share with him without knowing where they are they going."

The author's comments came in response to an April 28 editorial by a leading Potter fan site, http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org, which noted that it had been receiving "spoiler" e-mails — and expected many more — alleging advance knowledge of the book's contents.

Rowling has said two major characters will die in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," which comes out July 21. Although the Potter books are released under tight security, copies often are obtained before the publication date.

"If Harry dies, we don't want to know about it until J.K. Rowling decides to tell us," Leaky Cauldron webmaster Melissa Anelli wrote. "And if you decide to tell us before that, you'll incur the wrath of a staff of almost 200, most of whom have been waiting almost 10 years for these final revelations and can NEVER get back the moment you rob by spoiling them.

"That's some wrath right there. We own pitchforks, hot wax and feathers. And we're not afraid to use them."

On Monday, Rowling seconded the fan site's plea.

"Some, perhaps, will read this and take the view that all publicity is good publicity, that spoilers are part of hype, and that I am trying to protect sales rather than my readership," Rowling wrote on http://www.jkrowling.com. "However, spoilers won't stop people buying the book, they never have - all it will do is diminish their pleasure in the book."

More than 300 million copies have sold of the previous six Potter books. "Deathly Hallows" has more than 1 million pre-orders on Amazon.com alone.





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