[HPforGrownups] Re: GoF Chapter 11 Discussion

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 2462


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From: "Steve Bates" <spicoli323 at hotmail.com>
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Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2000 2:39 PM
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?

Cedric is the first genuine death in the unfolding narrative - this makes it
easier to set up the dramatic conflicts which will, in the later books, kill
off some of the more important characters (just as the first death in Hamlet
is garrulous ineffective Polonius, or the first death in Lear is a nameless
servant defending Gloucester).

    - CMC