[HPforGrownups] The Deaths of Beloved Characters, and related subjects

[Incitatus]

No: HPFGUIDX 23622

 --- Eric Oppen <oppen at cnsinternet.com> wrote: 
> Cedric seemed to be a decent sort, we only got to
> see much of him in GoF,
> and even then, we never got to really know
> him---there'd have been a lot
> more impact if LV had killed poor, harmless, hapless
> Neville Longbottom.

> We've seen Neville since the first book, bumbling
> his way along, often
> clearly out of his depth, and a target for Snape's
> mistreatment since his
> first day in Potions, and I don't think there's a
> single HP reader that
> wouldn't say that they feel sorry for the poor kid. 
> I feel like I know
> Neville far better than any of us got to know Cedric
> Diggory, and his death
> would have not only had more of an impact, but
> underscored, if it needed
> underscoring, just how casual and ruthless a killer
> Voldemort is.  Even in
> the graveyard before Voldemort's got his body back,
> Neville'd be absolutely
> no threat to him.

Part of the tragedy was that we had just begun to get
to know Cedric, I think half of the point of his death
was to highlight just how the loss of someone we do
not know that well can have on our lives. The message
I get is about not only placing value on those close
to you but on others too those that you can now NEVER
get to know.

(I really don't think that Diggory posed much of a
threat to Voldie but killing Neville would actually
have bordered on the humourous ... that's just the
sort of thing people would expect Neville to do,
clumsily managing to get himself killed [actually you
may need a *very* dark sense of humour to understand
the joke but oh well ::shrugs::] I think there are
bigger things in stall for Mr Longbottom)

Well that my thoughts.

My night shift is over, I'm off home to bed:)

Catriona/Incitata



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