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Friday, July 6, 2007
Rowling wouldn't kill Harry Potter, would she?
[From CNN] Brace yourselves, Harry Potter fans. No matter how desperate you are for Harry to live, some experts in classic literature and mythology say that finishing off the young wizard would make sense -- in a literary kind of way.
J.K. Rowling has never shied from darkness in her phenomenally successful series -- it started with the murder of Harry's parents, continued through his discovery that an evil wizard was trying to destroy him, and has included pain and torture and the deaths of major characters.
She's already promised two deaths in the seventh and final book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," coming out July 21, and has refused to commit to Harry surviving. But she couldn't kill Harry off, could she? She wouldn't do that, would she?
"If you look at the tradition of the epic hero ... there is this sort of pattern that the hero delivers people to the promised land but does not see it himself," said Lana Whited, professor of English at Ferrum College in Ferrum, Virginia, pointing out examples from King Arthur to Moses to Frodo.
Greek mythology has plenty of examples, like Hercules, who was killed at the height of his strength, said Mary Lefkowitz, a retired classics professor who taught at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.
Thursday, July 5, 2007
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In California, the Governor's Office of Emergency Services opened 17 cooling centers throughout the state, said spokesman Eric Lamoureux. He said incidents of heat exhaustion were "isolated."Any time you have got heat conditions like this, people overexert themselves outside, and that's one thing we're strongly encouraging people to be careful with.He said a big problem is that overnight temperatures are not falling sufficiently "for people to get the recovery they need."He said incidents of heat exhaustion were "isolated."
Any time you have got heat conditions like this, people overexert themselves outside, and that's one thing we're strongly encouraging people to be careful with.He said a big problem is that overnight temperatures are not falling sufficiently "for people to get the recovery they need."He said incidents of heat exhaustion were "isolated."Any time you have got heat conditions like this, people overexert themselves outside, and that's one thing we're strongly encouraging people to be careful with.He said a big problem is that overnight temperatures are not falling sufficiently "for people to get the recovery they need."
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