[HPforGrownups] Cedric's Death-Hope I'm not repeatative...

[Steph Widger]

No: HPFGUIDX 11277

Alrite, I want to respond to this message and I've been reading through what 
all of you thought and I just want to put in my two cents and what I think, 
I just hope I don't repeat a whole lot...

Scott wrote:
<<In re-reading the canon I found that I had several thoughts/questions
about the death of Cedric. I know that Jo has stated in past
interviews that it was very difficult for her to write Cedric's death
and that she cried. My question is did we as readers find Cedric's
death that emotional?>>

I know that I did. I cried my eyes out. I can still see the day, driving 
home from Albright like it was yesterday. I did blaw. I don't remember if it 
started at the end of term feast with Dumbledore, or if it was when he 
actually died. And now, re-reading it, I wonder how much worse it's gonna be 
at the end. Because I know what's coming and when things like, "Always 
modest our Ced, always the gentleman..." -Amos Diggory, are said...I almost 
cried when I read that, thinking about how he is in the end with the cup and 
Harry. *sigh* It was emotional for me.


<<Another question I had is whether Cedric's death is extraneous to the 
plot, or will later become central? Did he HAVE to die? Not exactly, at 
least IMO. I mean his death shows the reality of evil, and that Voldemort 
doesn't care who he kills.>>

I can't remember if anyone said this, but I think while it shows Voldemort 
doesn't care who he kills, it also shows that the good people get killed 
too. As with Lily and James, Cedric was a wonderful boy, imo. I'd marry 
Cedric if I could. :) Sorry, that's ot...I think it says, I'm big, I'm 
powerful, and I can kill this kid w/o feeling a thing, I don't care who he 
is or what he's done. Good people die, and kids die, as someone already beat 
me too. It's something hard for teenagers to go through, I should know, I've 
been there twice. Losing a friend is hard and it's gonna make the kids at 
Hogwarts appraciate what they've got 10x over. So, in that way, it was 
important-to show them what they had, and what could possibly happen to 
them.

<<In the long run Jo Rowling IS more invested in the characters than we are, 
like it or not! (She is the one to breath life into them after
all.) That, when it boils down to it, is most likely why she was so
affected. Maybe I'm not invested in the characters enough to me moved
to tears by the death of Cedric.>>

I guess you could say that...true she did write the books, but i've read 
them 3x each, if not more. I know the characters pretty well, and while I 
can't read their minds, I've gotten pretty good at telling what they'll do 
next. (Maybe it's cuz I've read them so many times. :) Maybe Cedric is a 
minor character, and maybe I'm overemotional, but I was attached to him and 
she really opened him up to us in this last book. *Sigh* Thoughts floating 
in my head are innumberal.

I'm gonna go. Sorry if that was unnessacry and repeatative.
@~~~
Steph

"Plus-ya never know when Casey's gonna freak out on air." -Dan
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