[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Fanfics with slash & sex...I don't get it

[Kathryn Cawte]

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From: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
Date: 12 January 2003 21:29:09
To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Fanfics with slash & sex...I don't get it


>*gags, spluttering her tea all over the keyboard*
Excuse me?? "big deal"? "Who cared about him?"??? Maybe the "little 
we did know was ... popped into GoF just to make him slightly less of 
a minor-character when he did get killed" but he *did* get killed. 
And he was harmless. And his death was pointless and stupid. And 
ruthless.

Not sure it was pointless, JK probably put it there for a reason, 
it's just that it didn't give me goosebumps. Honest.

I don't think that's what she meant by pointless. (I could be wrong, but
that's not how I read it) I think she meant it in the sense of a senseless
death - Voldemort had no real reason to kill him other than the fact that he
had no reason *not* to.
He wasn't a threat but Voldemort killed him because he could.
In the sense of the book of course it wasn't pointless - it very quickly and
very simply showed us what kind of an evil Voldemort really was. It showed
us that he doesn't just kill because he needs to or because someone's a
threat but because he can. That the act itself was committed so casually
showed us his character far more easily than pages of talking could have
done. A very nice exampl of show don't tell. IMHO a good author is one who
can write one short scene about a character and leave you *knowing* so much
about them that it would have taken pages for him/her to describe that
character.

K