Stags stuck in tunnels, Death in HP

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Mindy wrote:
<OK. One thing I don't get. If James Potter turned into
<a Stag, then how on earth did he fit into the Whomping
<Willow tree to join Lupin the werewolf every month?
<He'd be noticed in no time -- a dog or rat can be
<unnoticed but not a STAG! Any answers?

I'd extend this to (and it has been bothering me since I
First read PoA): How does a stag fit into a tunnel in
which oh so small Harry can't walk upright? He would get
stuck, wouldn't he? And transforming after having reached 
the shack could have been a bit risky.

Eric Oppen wrote:
<One thing that kind of bothered me about the death of
<Cedric Diggory in GoF was that it didn't have the
<impact on me that the death of a character we'd
<gotten to know well through the first three books
<would have had.  Although 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.

I have to say that I disagree with you on this one:
IMO, Cedric's death is not shocking because we know
or like him more or less, it is shocking because it
exemplifies for the first time and directly (so far
we had only second hand notice) that for Voldemort,
people are no more than material. "Kill the spare"
is, at least for me, so terrifying because it 
degrades a human being to a mere object. You've got
two, one you don't need, so throw away the spare.
It would have been much less terrible, had Voldemort
said "Kill the other one".