HP deaths Re: Harry Potter Ending

[potioncat]

 "wildirishrose01us"  wrote:
>
> I have a friend at work that told me that GOF went too dark for him 
> and his kids.  I'm not sure if he quit reading after GOF or only 
his 
> kids quit reading. Maybe he decided that they were too young to 
read 
> them.
> 

Potioncat:
The very friend who convinced me to start reading HP, never read past 
PoA. She found it too dark. It didn't help that her life was pretty 
dark at that time. So she lost interest as I became a rabid 
fan....well, maybe not rabid.

This thread started with death in the HP books. I was thinking that 
movies are written differently than books, and so are movie deaths--
who dies, when they die, how the scenes play out are different. I'm 
reminded of the movie Galaxcy Quest, with the one character certain 
he's going to die because he has neither a last name or a real role. 
Of course that was based on TV-death rules, different agan. Who 
remembers Bonanza? We kids knew any young lady who captured the heart 
of a Cartwright boy was doomed.

A movie based on a book has to adapt the rules. The movie has to 
follow the book at least in form. The HP movies don't stick as 
closely as canon fans would like. Some characters who were very 
important in canon, aren't as prominent in the movies, and their 
deaths don't/won't have the same impact. So a HP movie fan might have 
different expectations along this line than a HP canon fan.

Before HBP and DH we canon fans discussed who might die, why a 
character-type was doomed or how the HP genre determined outcomes. Of 
course, we don't exactly agree on the genre anyway. I never followed 
those threads too closely because I didn't want any of the good guys 
to die.

It seems to me, that JKR had her reasons for killing the characters 
she killed. Not that we have to agree with them.  ;-)