Will She Won't She?

In truth it is more has she or hasn't she - has Our Jo killed off Harry Potter or not?

It is a terrible thing to have to consider, but there can be no doubt that any choices made by the author of this book of fiction will have had to have been influenced by the potential actual impact of those choices on real young people.

There is something far too horrid to contemplate, but one does fear that young minds obsessively driven by the books could come to harm. One pictures ritual suicides in peculiar societies in the Far East.

Pray my soul is not prophetic, but if young Harry should 'die' then it will be as an act of total sacrifice for the good of others and others may feel the need to emulate such an act in some mistaken, misshapen way.

Even to be able to think this is too awful.