Of course, death and suffering are present in children's tales, it's enough to remeber Anderson's gloomy stories. What I was implying was that it happens rarely in children's literature that the main good characters die. It was the wolf who died, not the Riding Hood, after all. Especially in the case of a world-wide beloved character such as Harry, this would be rather unlikely. Not like he's my favourite character, I've always been kind of neutral towards him.
But Rowling tends to be unpredictable, so who knows. ^__~
Hmm, but is there a non-verb meaning for hallow? "The Deathly Hallows" suggests a noun meaning, so I thought maybe there is one I'm not aware of...