The Problems with the DH movie

[va32h]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman" <susiequsie23 at ...> wrote:
> I complete "get" that Fred, Colin, Tonks & Lupin all died because, well, war sucks and JKR's not going to save all the popular ones just so's we can all be happy at the end.  Still, given that Lupin was the only remaining Marauder, the only of Harry's dad's compatriots left in Harry's life, it does seem like we "deserved" to see his death, as opposed to just discovering it as if we're looking down a checklist.
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> I'm NOT happy that both Tonks & Lupin died, but I'm mostly unhappy that it did feel off-handed. :(
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va32h:

See, I didn't "get" why they had to die at all. Not from any logical standpoint, anyway.  The DE were outnumbered. And Colin doesn't even belong at the battle at all, because he's a Muggleborn and wasn't at school all year  (and yes I know all the fanwanking we can do to get him there, but frankly, I am sick to death of having to do plot gymnastistics to make Rowling's increasingly lazy choices make sense.)

And IMO, the deaths of Tonks and Lupin feel offhanded because they are offhanded. Didn't Rowling say in one of her interviews that she just decided one day that she'd like to have another orphan in the series?

You know a lot of subjects on the list lately - the "missing" 24 hours that JKR didn't realize even existed, the changes with the ending of the HBP film, the changes with ALL the films really, the discussion of whether this actor or that has read the books or why Rowling would allow this or that change to be made....it all boils down to one thing. 

No one involved in the production of these books or movies - including (hell, especially) Rowling, gave as much thought, consideration or interpretation of this series as the readers did.  

va32h