What would be the worst possible ending of the last Harry Potter book?

There is also the key issue that you can only kill using an unforgivable curse if you really mean it. This crops up when harry is fighting belatrix at the end of Goblet of fire. Could Snape really mean to kill Dumbledore?? Even if D ordered him to do it (which I think he did BTW)

Fawkes can't be a horcrux for Dumby. That would mean Dumby had murdered someone - that's the only way you can make a horcrux, that's why it's considered the blackest of dark magic.

I do think Harry's gonna cop it. I mean, everyone he loves best has, so to join them would be a release. But I think he's taking Voldy w/him.

Snape's going, too, either him or Hagrid. Or Hagrid lives and marries Olympe. Or Snape lives and marries Trelawney. :o

I think harry is a horcrux and will die. But I don't think he should, poor soul has had enough misery in his life without copping it, too.

Think fawkes is dumbledores horcrux perhaps....

Don't think Neville will turn out to be the 'one' as dumbly said that voldemort ended up choosing his opponent... so harry is already 'the one' iyswim.

I'd like a nice conclusive ending though...

Does anyone else think Michael from My family would have made a good Harry? He's a lot weedier than Daniel whatshisface... apparently they didn't plan for him to become so broadshouldered!

I too like TP books... but strangely only the ones with the stupid wizard, I forget his name. There's just something more appealing about them.

I was the same way w/The Lord of the Rings. Now I've read that 5 times . . . .

I've read all the HP books 2x .

Ghosty
I used to slag HP books off - and people who read them even worse! Then I fell ill and couldn't leave the house. A mate of DH's dropped by, I moaned about having nothing to read. He said, 'How about these?' and brought over his set of HP books. I was like, 'God, you must think I'm desperate.' Well, I was. I got to book 3 and was hooked .

I am so relieved I am not the only one obsessed by HP ...
I wasn't but when I read the 1/2 Blood Prince I decided to re read all the others to remember what the hell was going on. I read them all in 4 weeks (DH was really pissed off with me because I did everything with an HP book in one hand ... well not everything )
I then got the 3 DVDs out and watched them back to back ... and cried when I realised I missed out on The Goblet of Fire as they took it off the cinema before I got a chance to go so I have to wait till it comes out on DVD.

Anyway ... I think that Harry is a horcrux and that the only way JK can finish the series is to kill him off while he is doing in Voldy. I reckon they both die and Ron and Hermione go off to be Aurors and carry on Harry's good work.

Am a bit embarrassed about my obsession so please don't tell anyone ... ta xx

The less said the better about the communicating through matching portraits and also eternal life of a kind through portraits - the potential to kill the action stone dead in each book thanks to this technology gets nicely ignored .

Dumbledore'sGirl - you're right, I forgot it's all a kind of Clockwork Orange lesson in freedom of choice for Harry to learn ('No fate but what we make' I believe was the phrase used in Terminator .

I think in the 1st book when they were discussing the philosophers stone, d said he thought the idea of being immortal was horrible. he's also really really old, so it's a shame, but i think his time came & he was happy about this. I think it would be a bit too 'Dynasty' for him to come back in book 7. Hope we don't have to wait a couple of years for it ....

I find it hard to imagine a HP book without Dumbledore in. But I do think that Harry really needs to become his own man and not have the reasurance of Dumbledore's wizarding strength behind him. So can only do this with Dumbledore being dead.
Am still convinced that the white phoenix is significant.

dumby's said several times, no spell can raise the dead. but we do have instances of the dead helping out the living somewhat - like when james spoke to harry in the goblet of fire - or the dead taking action - as when phineus nigellus went to his portrait at 12 grimmauld place to call out for sirius after he was killed.

think he's truly gone, tho, and ordered snape to do it.

Tamba mentioned on another thread the draught of living death and whether that was what Dumbledore drank to retrieve the locket. I must say, I dond't think it entirely fits the pattern of what then happened to him, but JK doesn't tend to mention things casually and I can't think that the draught of living death has been used anywhere else in the books, so how about here on Dumbledore?

JK made Dumbledore say that even wizards can't rise from the dead, so I doublt Dumbledore will be able to either, but I think he could appear to rise from the dead, a la the phoenix, if he had only seemed to die in the first place.

I find it really hard to believe that Dumbledore won't come back. And I think JK has placed a lot of emphasis on the life of the phoenix without actually using it yet and I think she will in the last book. The significance of the phoenix dying and being reborn from the ashes has to be used and I think it will be linked to Dumbledore.

I think he's just a phoenix.

What is the significance of Fawkes? Is he Dumbledore in spirit or something? Is Dumbledore an animagus and is he the phoenix seen at the funeral - or was that Fawkes?

Agree Nightynight, but also feel that what you have said makes it even more inevitable that he is going to die. It is as if he needed Dumbledore to survive and don't forget he is not a qualified wizard so will be much weaker than others when it comes to the fight. JKR said Harry had to lose those dear to him to come out the other end. Obviously not all of them (and I admit to lose Hermione and Ron would be devastating) but I think hagrid is there on the list, near the top. Sorry hagrid.

(Actually, now Dumbledore is apparently gone, I don't care who else cops it. )

I thought Ron and Hermione were destined for each other...

Hagrid is a very sad character, nothing ever seems to go his way, and Dumbledore was the only one who stood up for him. It is a chilling portrait of what can happen to a child who has lost their parents and has nobody to support them through childhood and adolescence.

I feel Neville is on safer footing than Ron or Hermione myself so don't despair!

Hagrid is going to get it though.

I bow to your superior knowledge, Dumbledore's girl! Can you save Neville?

thats what I understood, but I havent read the latest one yet (hbp)

From what I have read, I believe the last chapter of the last book is going to be a kind of round up of all the remaining characters to show how they all turn out - a sort of seeing into the future thing. That diea alone sounds naff to me but if it is the case, you could have Ginny and HP marrying.

I dond't understand how Neville can be "the One". Surely the point is, either Harry or Neville could have been the one - there was nothing to choose between them - until Voldemort decided it must be Harry (because he was half blood like himself) and this decision of Voldemort's made Harry the one. ie Voldemort decided who was to be the one by choosing one of them.

Do you think it would work if we started a Save Neville campaign to try and influence JK Rowling??

HP is too young to marry anyone though, and JKR has kept the books relevant to real teenagers (as far as possible!) up til now.

I don't think HP will get it, but I fear for poor old Neville. I agree that he is The One, and I think he and Voldemort will die together. Then HP will marry Ginny and Snape will take Dumbledore's place as headmaster of Hogwarts.

I really hope JKR doesnt kill Neville off, I really like him (he reminds me of one of my children!)

I think the relationship with parents is really hard to come to terms with, am not surprised that Harry is struggling with it.