The Problems with the DH movie

[julie]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "va32h" <va32h at ...> wrote:
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> --- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman" <susiequsie23@> 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:
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> 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.)

Julie:
It's especially galling that two Order members, one an Auror
and one a werewolf (who one would think might be more difficult
to kill than your average wizard) can be so easily killed.
Heck, it took a wall falling on him to kill Fred, and Colin
at least isn't yet a fully-trained wizard. All the DA members
survive, and Neville even kills Nagini, yet they all have much
less experience than Lupin and Tonks. 

But, as you say, it is all about expediency rather than logic.
She wanted Teddy to be an orphan, and maybe to get rid of the
last of the characters from the old Order (Marauder/Snape era)
to clear the way for the "next generation". So she killed off
Lupin and Tonks without even showing how they died, since 
seeing two Order members felled together, apparently unable to
defend themselves, would make little sense to readers anyway!

Julie