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Originally Posted by MysticCat81
If she sticks to her roots, then Harry will not die. The Harry Potter series follows the paradigm of fantasy and Quest literature, and the quest must be achieved, which means Voldemort must die.
Harry living, though, doesn't mean living happily ever after -- part of the Quest genre is that achieving the quest does not come without paying a price. Perhaps he will forever bear a scar much deeper than the one on his forehead.
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By sticking to her roots, I meant sticking to her origin's roots. Europeans do not usually write children's literature that is dumbed down with happily ever after. Unless they are writing a story that they want to be big in the US. I mean look at the original Grimm Brothers stories. They do not end like the Americanized versions. Also, the Iliad was written to be children's literature. Believe it or not... I hate to think about that book being read by children. It was difficult enough to get through it as an adult.
I also must point out that Harry is always two seconds from dying anyway. If he did not have the help of others, he would already be dead. Killing off Dumbledore was big, at least in my mind, because that was the person who guided him a lot and pushed him in the right directions. The teachers also helped by teaching him what he needed to know to succeed, but if they are truly going off on their own like the book said in the last chapter. Whi is he going to get help from? He is a weak wizard without the help of other knowledgeable people behind him. He just takes their imput and casts it out. Not the smartest. Not the most powerful. However, the book is big here, so he may not die. We shall see.