About the seventh

Daniel Radcliffe, who reprises his boy-wizard role in the upcoming fifth HARRY POTTER movie, THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX, thinks ending the franchise with Harry's death makes sense. Asked if he'll be playing a death in the expected seventh and final film in the series, Radcliffe said: "That's a very good question. ... I like to think that I will. ... 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." Radcliffe, speaking in a conference call from

London

with journalists on Nov. 6, also drew a parallel between his character's relationship with Harry's nemesis, the evil Lord Voldemort, and the one between Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty, both of whom had to perish at

Reichenbach

Falls

in order for the villain to be vanquished. "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," the 17-year-old actor said. He added: "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." Rowling is currently writing the upcoming seventh and final Potter book, for which no release date has yet been announced. Harry Potter and the Order of the

Phoenix

, based on the fifth of Rowling's books, opens July 13, 2007.