Posted on 12/06/2005 6:00:53 AM PST by jalisco555
HARRY Potter may die in the next book in the series because author JK Rowling wants to kill him off, it was claimed last night.
Actor Jim Dale - the voice of the teenage wizard in the US audio books - believes the seventh and final instalment will spell the end for Harry.
He made the astonishing claim after meeting with the writer to discuss his characterisation of the parts.
The revelation will shock millions of die-hard Potter fans.
He said: "She's lived with Harry Potter so long she really wants to kill him off." Predictions about the fate of Harry in the seventh book have enthralled millions worldwide.
No name or publication date have yet been released, although it is expected by early 2007 at the latest.
Rowling has already revealed she has written its last chapter, in which Harry and his chums come of age.
But the only detail of the top-secret project is that the final word is "scar".
Dale did not expand on how the teenager meets his fate, but Rowling has hinted either he or arch enemy Voldemort must die. At a recent meeting with fans, Rowling dropped her biggest hint that Potter may die. One fan asked: "Will we get a glimpse of Harry and Hermione's lives at the end of the last book?"
Rowling answered jokingly: "Assuming anyone survives, I may kill the whole lot."
She also teases fans by claiming the clues to Potter's end lie in the books.
Actor Daniel Radcliffe, who plays the teenage wizard in the blockbuster movies, has said: "It's dangerous to say, 'Daniel thinks Harry might die'. But I do maintain there is a possibility he could be killed in the final book."
Yesterday, the Christopher Little Literary Agency - Rowling's agent - said they had no comment to make.
But in a soon-to-be-broadcast radio interview Rowling reveals she has an idea for another children's novel.
The Edinburgh-based author says: "There is another book that's sort of mouldering in a cupboard that I quite like which is for younger children."
The fourth film, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, is currently number one at the box office in the UK and US.
BTW, any HP fans out there should definitely check out the audio versions of the books. Jim Dale is simply astonishingly good.
Wish they would do the same for the Sopranos.
Will he be sent to hell for being a devil worshiper?
Shades of "Blake's Seven"!
Have you read any of the books?
I would not rush to believe every word a paper like the Mirror has to say.
Okay, I'll spill the beans. In the next and final book in the series, 'Harry Potter and the Brown Skid Marks of Shame', the young wizard manages to finally destroy Voldemort, lose his virginity, and graduate Hogwarts but unfortuantly all three happen simultaneously at an intervention for Hagrid's growing malt liquor problem.
Someone's panties are in a bunch because the HP books have been outselling the Bible.
It is a great series of books, although at the end of the last one I was so mad that I threw the book across the room and cursed the name J.K. Rowling.
JKR would probably be mobbed by HP fans if she killed him off in the last book.
At best she'll make him disappear, borrowing from King Arthur's myth - to send him off into the mists, to return when next evil should rise again.
(Or worse yet, she'll send him back in time to grow up to become Dumbledore.)
*pingus maxima*
*COFFEE SPEW*
My wife and I have read all to books to date. We speculate that the last horcrux is the scar on Harry's forehead. The last book indicated that all the horcrux's (whats the plural of horcrux?) will have to be found and destroyed in order to eliminate Voldamort.
Rowling has always hinted that Harry will not be available for an eighth book. Any such decision would not be new. The story outline has been fixed since before the publication of the first book.
LOL
The Harry Potter books are much more entertaining.
Arthur Conan Doyle made this mistake once.
They're just quoting Jim Dale, who knows as much as anyone beside Rowling herself. I suspect it's more hype than substance but I guess we'll see when the book comes out.
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