Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe believes Harry Potter must die.
"I like to think that I will," Radcliffe said in a conference call from London on November 6th. "I think, personally, ... that's the only way author J.K. Rowling]could ever halt any call for her to keep writing Potter books, because, I mean, if Harry survives, she'll just be getting plagued by requests to write an eighth book for the rest of her life."

"I think it will be something to do with the fact that ... maybe the only way Voldemort can be killed is if Harry is killed as well," said Radcliffe. "My friend sort of compared it to both Homes and Moriarty dying at the same time. But, obviously, he hasn't read the sequel [in which Holmes was revived]. So, yes, but that's the thing that I would sort of like to see coming."


Harry Potter scribe J.K. Rowling has revealed that at least two characters will die in the seventh Harry Potter novel. The final book will most likely see the final battle between Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort.

"The final chapter is hidden away, although it's now changed very slightly," Rowling said in an interview with Britain's Channel 4. "One character got a reprieve, but I have to say two die that I didn't intend to die."

Rowling isn't going to give any details away however: "No, I'm not going to commit myself, because I don't want the hate mail or anything else."

So the question is, will Harry survive?

"I've never been tempted to kill him (Harry) off before the end of book seven, because I always planned seven books and that's where I want to go. I can completely understand, however, the mentality of an author who thinks 'Well, I'm going to kill them off because that means there can be no non-author-written sequels ... so it will end with me, and after I'm dead and gone they won't be able to bring back the character'."

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix hits theaters nationwide on July 13th 2007.