[HPforGrownups] Re: GoF: Sending Harry back to the Dursleys.

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 17431

driveslucy at aol.com wrote:

> I just don't know why hearing it read was so
> >  much more affecting.
>
> I was also much more affected by hearing it read.  Suddenly it hit me
> just how quickly Voldemort could kill,

That was my impression, even reading it myself. When Cedric died, I went
through exactly what (in my opinion) someone *there* would have. I knew
what must have happened, but I didn't process it immediately. There was
an element of shock, of disbelief because it was unfair because he
didn't have a chance.

I think JKR did a great job of both catching how callous Voldemort is,
how little life matters (that "Kill the spare" line is chilling), and of
communicating how bad guys really kill people, how death happens.
Sudden. No warning. No opportunity to speak, no last words. Not the way
deaths are usually handled in literature at all, and very effective. I
was very impressed.

--Amanda


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