OOP Spoiler: How the Death was written

Bob bob at tmbg.org
Tue Jul 1 16:22:14 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 66457

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Adana Robinson" 
<adanaleigh at h...> wrote:
> This mirrors real life exactly in my experience; it's not the 
actual moment 
> of the person dying when you break down; it's when you realize 
later what 
> life is going to be like without them, when you feel that "hole 
inside you 
> where they were, where they're not there anymore" not an exact 
quote, but 
> Harry felt something like that.
> 
> I think the death was written very realistically.
> 

And THIS, precisely, is the reason Harry doesn't see the Thestrals at 
the end of Book 4.  It needs time to SINK IN.  Think about it.

Bob
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