Please Let Harry Potter Die

  • Thread starter Thread starter Ahimsa
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
Actually, didn’t the Prophecy state that Only one of them will survive?😃
 
I stand corrected. 👍

I prefer that Voldemort kills Harry, but Voldemort dies with him, assuming all horcruxes were destroyed. (I think Harry is some horcrux or something since he has a bit of Voldemort, though it may not be that way.)
 
patrick457 said:
I stand corrected. 👍

I prefer that Voldemort kills Harry, but Voldemort dies with him, assuming all horcruxes were destroyed. (I think Harry is some horcrux or something since he has a bit of Voldemort, though it may not be that way.)
Click to expand...
Is it summer yet???
 
JudieK said:
I believe that Snape is good and did what he did to Dumbledor after planning it with Dumbledor in advance. It was all part of the plan, which Dumbledor sacraficed himself for (he was always a god-like figure to me). Too many years were spent showing that Snape was actually good and trustworthy. I think we are all in for a suprise.
Click to expand...
I really hope that, whatever is true, this isn’t true. Even if the victim consents to it ahead of time, killing an innocent person is still wrong.

I have no idea what to think about Snape, but I don’t think that he planned this with Dumbledore ahead of time. Dumbledore knows that Harry has already been through a lot; would he really make him endure seeing what must have been a traumatizing scene?
 
Liberalsaved said:
July, I think.
Click to expand...
Gosh, that’s around the same time as the movie “Order of the Phoenix” comes out.

My husband just finished listening to the audio book of “Half-Blood Prince” on his MP3 player. He’s eager for book 7 to come out now, too!
 
LRThunder said:
No publishing date has been set. As far as I know, J.K. Rowling is still writing the book.
Click to expand...
There was a news article where she was almost prevented from taking the script on a plane. She said it was finished and the always carries it with her.
 
Has anyone noticed how inferior magic is?

Arthur C. Clarke said any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. I’d say the magic in the HP series stacks up very poorly against modern technology:

The students have to write all their homework with pen and ink on parchment. No laptops nor even typewriters.

How many hours have Harry and his friends searched away in the library for some arcane text? Nothing digitised, no search engine, apparently not even a very efficient catalog.

Transportation: Floo powder? What if your destination doesn’t have a fireplace? Riding brooms has to be both bone-chilling and arse-breaking. Wouldn’t regular cars or regular public transportation be better?

Communication: no TV or radio, only one newspaper. Only owl mail, no telephone (except that fireplace thing), no e-mail.

I’ll stick with “muggle magic” thank you very much!
 
Didymus,The Wizarding World was Antiquated, isn’t it? The Ancient way of life. 😃
 
Grace_and_Glory said:
I really hope that, whatever is true, this isn’t true. Even if the victim consents to it ahead of time, killing an innocent person is still wrong.

I have no idea what to think about Snape, but I don’t think that he planned this with Dumbledore ahead of time. Dumbledore knows that Harry has already been through a lot; would he really make him endure seeing what must have been a traumatizing scene?
Click to expand...
I think, there was a “deal” between Snape and DD for Snape to kill him instead of Draco. Remember Snape was complaining about his role and that maybe he didn’t want to do it anymore. Further, I think that DD was already dying due to the injury he received with the ring horcrux. In the first book Snape talks about “putting a stopper on death”. I think that DD was alive only because Snape was keeping him alive. So, I don’t know about the full moral implications of Snape’s act. But I don’t think he merely killed him, there’s more to it than that.

I don’t know that DD planned for Harry to see Snape kill him. Maybe. Yes, it was traumatic, but when something traumatic happens people are changed by it. Maybe it was a bit of maturity Harry needed? And for Harry to better understand dying for a cause.
 
They use magic for nearly everything…its crazy…i mean how hard is it to unlock a door with a key? 😉
 
I really hope that, whatever is true, this isn’t true. Even if the victim consents to it ahead of time, killing an innocent person is still wrong.
Click to expand...
I have no idea what to think about Snape, but I don’t think that he planned this with Dumbledore ahead of time. Dumbledore knows that Harry has already been through a lot; would he really make him endure seeing what must have been a traumatizing scene?
Click to expand...
I’m not convinced that Dumbledor is even dead. Remember that he is the most powerful wizard around. He certainly succommed easily for such a powerful wizard. I think Dumbledor trusts Harry’s stength enough to let him be traumatized -again- for a while to serve a higher purpose… I believe there is an inticate plan to get Voldemort and it is important for Harry to be in the dark about it for awhile. Just me opinion.:rolleyes:
 
Grace_and_Glory said:
I really hope that, whatever is true, this isn’t true. Even if the victim consents to it ahead of time, killing an innocent person is still wrong.

I have no idea what to think about Snape, but I don’t think that he planned this with Dumbledore ahead of time. Dumbledore knows that Harry has already been through a lot; would he really make him endure seeing what must have been a traumatizing scene?
Click to expand...
When Dumbledore came to Snape for help after being poisoned, I think Snape realized there was no way to save him and “eased his pain”. In doing that, he proved to the Dark Lord he was on his side (even though he’s not).
 
JudieK said:
I’m not convinced that Dumbledor is even dead. Remember that he is the most powerful wizard around. He certainly succommed easily for such a powerful wizard. I think Dumbledor trusts Harry’s stength enough to let him be traumatized -again- for a while to serve a higher purpose… I believe there is an inticate plan to get Voldemort and it is important for Harry to be in the dark about it for awhile. Just me opinion.:rolleyes:
Click to expand...
JK Rowling said i an interview that he was indeed dead.

Killing off the main character is not unusual for an author of a multi-series book. For instance Arthur Conan Doyle Killled off Sherlock Holmes and Ian Fleming killed off James Bond both because there were tired of writing books about them. Because of public outcry both of these characters were subsequently resurrected in a following book-James Bond memorably in a book titled “You Only Live Twice”

Given her slowness in writing the last last three books in this series I suspect that number seven will indeed be the last and that Harry will indeed die lest she or someone in the future be tempted to write about him again.

Colleen McCullough evidenced this “series fatigue” in her Master s of Rome series combining the last of two planned books into one. The last of her series the was the most poorly writteno f the series and I fear we will see the same thing with the last Harry Potter book.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top