So.. the final installment of the Harry Potter series came out last month and I haven't even started it yet. I decided to go back and read the whole series before starting the new one for two reasons. One being, of course, that it will refresh my memory and second, that way I won't have so many people to fight with to borrow the book, since by the time I get to Book 7 everyone else will probably be done already.
I am in the middle of Book 4 and I've spent the time reading the earlier books thinking of what might happen in the end. I have said, since the beginning, that Harry should die and that Ron should be the one to have to kill him (to stop Voldemort, their connection). I don't think the author would do that, though, and I'm almost positive that Harry survives. So, switching thought trains, I tried to figure out what else could happen in the end. Please don't laugh at me at how wrong I am.
I started thinking about how in Book 6 we are introduced to horcruxes; how there were 6 or 7 (I forget how many?) pieces of Lord Voldemort's soul that he hid, to keep him alive. And then I started thinking about Harry and his connection to the dark wizard. And then it hit me. The very first chapter, titled "The Boy Who Lived." The Boy Who Lived. And it all made sense. He can't die, because he is the boy who lived. And, I started thinking about the scar, the trace of the curse that should have killed him. I don't know how it'll all fall together, I don't know what all it would involve, but the only redemption to Harry not dying in the final book is if his scar is a horcrux and that at the end of it all the scar will be gone and he won't have it anymore.
That is what I think. In the very first chapter Dumbledore even made mention to the fact that he wouldn't remove the scar even if they could, how curse scars can be very useful etc...
Now, of course, I may be way off, but if all the pieces fall into place, this makes sense. She has done well with foreshadowing in the past, I think, and this would make a good ending, although maybe not as heart-wrenching as Ron having to kill his best friend (while Hermione watches).
I will see when I get to the final book in a few weeks.
