[HPforGrownups] Re: GoF Chapter 11 Discussion

[Sister Mary Lunatic]

No: HPFGUIDX 2091

JKR said she HAD to kill nice people to show how evil Voldemort is.  It's
not just that he killed good people in the past (like the Potters), but that
he is killing good and innocent people, even children, right NOW.  People
that Harry knows personally.

That's how it is in "real life" -- good people are senselessly murdered all
the time.  The only reason is that the murderer is a sociopath who has no
idea that other people are in the same species as the sociopath is.

She even shows him inflicting indescribable pain on a young teen (Harry)
just for his own amusement and to show off to his followers.  Sick sick sick



-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Bates [mailto:spicoli323 at hotmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2000 12:40 PM
To: HPforGrownups at egroups.com
Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: GoF Chapter 11 Discussion

In the very interesting JKR interview of a few weeks ago (post 2018)
she mentions in passing that she absolutely *hated* killing Cedric.
So why did she do it?  I've noticed before that he could have been
kept alive with only minimal plot changes; there would be some subtle
but important shifts in theme and the effects on Harry, but I think
there must be some greater reason for killing Cedric than we've seen
yet.  What kind of possible repurcussions could the death have in
Book 5?