Has harry got to die at the end of the last book?

[halfblood]

well, this was the convo me and my friend had yesterday. he thought that harry would be the final horcrux and for voldemort to die harry would have to sort of kill himself. i don't know if i believe this but i wanted your thoughts on the matter. I don't think he can becasue the whole book is written in 3rd person narrative so how would jk finish her story but that is just one suggestion.

Rachel
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[orangeballoon]

ah, the ever popular debate --> to kill harry or to not kill harry!

personally, i don't think harry (or his scar) is a horocrux. you have to perform a spell to make a horocrux. you can't inadvertently make a horocrux. it's not like voldy accidentally trapped a piece of his soul in a cut on a baby's head. i don't really have much backup on this theory other than thinking it's silly and i don't want to see harry die. however, i also think that we're looking at a fight to the finish. i just keep hoping that voldy is the one who is finished!

[~:Padfoot fan:~]

I don't believe Harry is a horcrux... how can we have SEVEN books, where we grow up with this character just to seeh him die! If it ends that way then what is the point really? We read each book with him narrowly(sp) escaping death just to have find out he had to die in the end? (This is trying to work the story plot)

Now what about the Prophecy saying... er I don't know it word for word but basically one of them has to die for the other to survive and if Harry had to die in the end that would be the opposite of the prophecy because it is telling you one will live.

Also what about the fact that he tried to kill Harry basically every year he was at Hogwarts besides the third. I think he would have at least tried a switching spell so Harry wouldn't be a Horcrux anymore but he didn't...

[~*Hermione*~]

I don't believe Harry will die because if he does Voldermort surives.

neither can live will the other survives......

read it and think it over

[halfblood]

but that doesnt mean that both can't die, no saying harry will, just pointing this out

[wokcus]

Rachel? is that your name? I wrote my own hp book and he found out he had a sis named Rachel

[halfblood]

cool, have you posted it anywhere, can i read it?

[hermyfan]

guuuuuys....

I personally, am against the Harry is a Horcrux thing, you can't just create a horcrux without knowing it, and anyway, you'd think that Dumbledore would've realised that Harry is a Horcrux.
AND ANYWAY, DD said that LVoldemort couldn't tell if one of his Horcruxes had been destroyed, so how could he have felt Harry's pressence, if he was a horcrux?

But that's besides the point, HARRY WILL LIVE!!!

YOU CAN'T JUST GO THROUGH SEVEN BOOKS TO HAVE HIM DIE AT THE END!!!! CAN YOU?!?!?!?!

[/rant] soz

[silentbanshee]

I think that it could be possible that Harry is a Horcrux, but I don't think he will have to die. We've always been talking about destroying horcruxes, but who's to say that just because the horcrux is destroyed, the object will be destroyed. Who's also to say that just because the object is destroyed it means that the horcrux is destroyed.

Think about it, maybe if Harry was a horcrux, Voldemort realized how much power he was sacrificing by not having his entire soul. So perhaps, he was trying to get his horcrux back by killing Harry, maybe it was the only way to get it back.

And also, say they were to destoy the horcrux in the locket, why couldn't the object be saved? Maybe Harry just has to figure out how to destroy the horcrux within him, sure, it might mean that he has to disappear for a while, but he could come back.

I'm only specualting this for if Harry is a horcrux. I'm just saying don't rule out the possibilty simply because there are a few complications, we must remember that we don't know everything about horcruxes. That's all, though it is highly imporbable that Harry is one. There are just some things that seem to point to it!

-Rea

[halfblood]

another reason why harry might die at the end is because if he doesnt jk will get pestered to write more books and i think she clearly wants to stick at 7. if harry does die it will impossible to write about harry growing up, lol. just a thought

rach

[jessica]

I think Harry should die! It would be a perfect ending to the story. Alot of people argue that the stories would have been pointless if Harry died in the end. but, if you think of it that Harry died to save the world...then how could it be pointless? Harry's birth is important because it meant the start of someone's downfall. Harry's birth is the catalyst that starts this whole prophecy obsession that Voldermort has. After the end of Voldermort, what's left of Harry's life. His purpose in life is kind of gone.
I use to think that Harry was a horocrux, but now i doubt it. Why would Voldermort want to kill harry if harry was a horocrux. And, you can't argue that Voldermort did it unexpectedly because creating one is really hard. It takes alot more than just killing someone.

[halfblood]

so your saying that harry was put on the earth to get rid of voldemort, that is a very good analogy. it completely works, i have never heard of that before but i agree with you. it puts a whole new perspective on the harry potter books.

rach x

[jessica]

Yeah, exactly. But, I mean, there's alot of loopholes in my theory, I know that, but I just dont' ahve the time to think it through. lol. But bascially, the question is "why shouldn't Harry die?" Yes, it would be cruel and so many people would cry, but there's no point to go on. and that's why JKR will stop at book 7. Even if Harry lives, his story is over after the seventh book. there's not much to go after killing Voldermort. Isn't that what the whole series is about? The main story line is Harry and his survival to end Voldermort's survival. The other stories about his parents, Ron and Hermione, the ministry, the order, EVERYTHING is just a backstory that is effected by the main story.