J.K. Rowling's announced that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the last novel in the series, will be released July 21, 2007. I'm looking forward to it, but I sincerely hope she doesn't kill Harry -- that would be a very Hollywood-type ending, and it would drag down the entire series. Yes, other people have died in Harry's years at Hogwart, but ultimately the series is about good triumphing over evil ... and Harry dying in some climactic fight with Voldemort would feel like a draw.

Besides, I'm not ready for these books to end -- I'd love to see another two or three with Harry as an adult and a family of his own.