Maybe he can postpone it. He’ll still have the Deathly Hallows in a year. He can think it over in a year. Death said to call for her when he was ready. He’s just...not ready yet, that’s all. Maybe he will be in a week, a month, a year, and that’s okay. He just isn’t ready right now. He knows he won’t live forever, not as a vampire or as anything else; living forever sounds horribly painful, doesn’t it? He’ll go to school, grow up a bit more, maybe become a vampire if he lives to be seventeen just to try it out. Maybe. Maybe he’ll decide to die next week. Who knows?