UK bookseller Waterstone’s is sponsoring an online petition to Save Harry. Their aim is to gather one million signatures by July 21. They will send the signatures to author J. K. Rowling to urge her to keep the magic alive and continue writing Harry Potter novels although Rowling has already said before that she will never write another Harry Potter novel again.

The author has also said that two characters will die in the last book and many speculate that one of them will be Harry Potter himself. Should Potter die at the end of the seventh novel, Waterstone’s insists he can be brought back to life, if he doesn’t, then writing another novel would be even easier. They cite Sherlock Holmes as one fictional character who was brought back to life by his creator. Arthur Conan Doyle killed Holmes in The Adventure of the Final Problem in a struggle with his nemesis, Professor Moriarty, and then brought him back after eight years in The Hound of the Baskervilles due to public demand.

We’ve tried signing up to see if the site will tell us how many people have actually signed up, but signing up doesn’t show you this. We also did not receive any e-mail after signing up so I guess we’ll have to wait for July 21 to find out if they successfully gathered the signatures they needed.

Click on the link below if you want to join the petition. It will indeed be sad to see the series end and even illustrator Mary GrandPre has said she felt sad after reading the last book, but fans have mixed feelings about the petition. Some want to let it end as the author meant it to end; for them forcing the issue may just result in less enjoyable stories. Others simply want more of the world of the boy wizard as there is so much material Rowling can expand on and write about like Dumbledore’s past, the original Order of the Phoenix, etc. Only J. K. Rowling can decide — What do you write next after the phenomenal Harry Potter?

The petition can be found here: Save Harry!