Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows question

I was probably 60/40 sure that he would bite it in the end. "The Forest Again" in my copy of the book is just splattered with tears because I was pretty that would be it. Even the whole chapter after with Dumbledore I thought for the most part that he was going to stay dead and that was the single most difficult moment I've had while reading - forcing myself not to read the last couple lines of the chapter to see what would happen.

I think it would have been a very appropriate ending, his life had been riddled with trauma and, of course as it turns out, Harry was more or less raised specifically for this slaughter, even though I couldn't have known this when I made my prediction somewhere around the third book.

Harry is such a standard example of the hero trope (not complaining) that it seemed like the most poetic ending for him would be to be consumed by his own heroism.

After all isn't that the tragic plight of the hero? Will he ever be able to HAVE a normal life after he saves the day? Does he even want to?

I wasn't sure, I was back and forth between thinking it and not being sure before I read it. But that was a while ago. Glad he didn't :)

I like happy endings and I never speculate when it comes to the end of a series. Also, there were already a lot of spoilers the day the books were released. It was impossible to escape them, especially since even newspapers published them, ugh.
So yeah, I liked that Harry survived.

Ni. I never thought Harry would die. Ususally the hero never dies and it all works out. It is written for children and the theme for all the books in the series is that good conquers evil.
I love the Harry Potter series.

Noooo.

I would like to say that I almost threw the book in the trash because of how angry I got about Harry dying. It was bad enough that Fred died, but she was gonna take Harry too!?!? I had to kept reading because of the sheer fact that I couldn't(more like wouldn't) believe he was dead.

oh i was sobbing at the end of this book. and i did think he was going to die.

Partly; though I didn't believe it really.

I thought J.K. Rowling might have 'killed him off' because it might have made him seem more noble, more memorable, but as soon as I discovered he was going to the Forest to face death I knew that his bravery would be enough.

If he had died, there would have been a lot of unhappy fans, and I personally would not have agreed with it because, of course, the whole Dumbledore raising Harry as a pig for slaughter situation would arise and Dumbledore would lose his whole image (not to mention fans!), big-time.

I think if he would have died at the end there would have been an uproar not only from the fans, but the religious community as well. I mean, couldn't you see the Christians picketing the sales of "a book that makes a mockery of Jesus Christ."? I know that there were always a group of religious people trying to ban the books for satanism, witchcraft, etc, but it just seems like the idea of a hero dieing to save the rest of the world would push them over the edge.

Hang on! Have any of ou ever wondered where these ideas cme from? Cause personally I think there's a secret behind it all.

The thought hadn't really occurred to me, but now that I think of it... Even though it is tragic and whatnot, and barely satisfying, I honestly could live that that ending...