Hermione and JKR, was Re: Sirius & deaths

[Susanne]

No: HPFGUIDX 34896


Hi,

Friday, February 08, 2002, 6:14:06 AM, Katze wrote:

> However...if she doesn't kill Sirius, she might very well kill
> Hermione or Ron. She has mentioned that she thought it strange that no
> one seems to worry about Hermione. Oooh...red herring? Or perhaps she
> has something ghastly in store for our heroine?


I wondered about this possibility, too, ever since finding
out that Hermione is a representation of JKR herself, in the
stories.
This type of character (Mary Sue?) tends to either die
heroically or get married to the "hero" in inexperienced
hands.
They are usually almost perfect (is Hermione?) and have unusual names.

I wonder if JKR is going to follow these lines, or go a
totally different way.

Before joining a few discussion groups and reading
interviews with JKR I never even considered she might
kill off any of the three kids, but now I'm very worried.

My main enjoyment in movies/tv shows and books is the
friendship and interaction of the main characters and it
ruins it for me, if one of them goes.

While I can see that JKR wants to keep things realistic
(people do die in RL, even the ones you love most), I don't
want to really see this in the things that I enjoy, too :}

And I think there's already way too much death in children's
books/movies.
There's hardly a movie where both parents are alive, it
seems.

But then, my ten year old daughter always tells me I'm way
too sensitive anyhow <g>.

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 Susanne                           mailto:siskiou at earthlink.net