The Death of Book 5

[shinesse]

No: HPFGUIDX 59285

Hi all. I am just your everyday lurker throwing in my opinions. Well 
here it goes.

GKJPO wrote:
"I think that with the nature of these books we must expect some of 
the "too important" people to die. If someone like Dumbledore does 
die (which I think very likely considering all the references to his 
age and look), it will be painful to all of us. If JKR keeps 
knocking off peripheral characters we will not be satisfied with the 
series. After all, Dobby's death would certainly sadden Harry (do 
you think the Elf protection on death would be stronger than his 
mothers?), but not really cause him to rise above."


now for me:
"Always the innocent are the 1st victims," he said "So it has been 
for ages past, so it is now." Ronan Ch 15 SS/PS

Though this quote is about the unicorn in SS/PS I feel this holds 
true for the rest of the series. With that being said I feel anyone 
of the innocent can die. JKR has certainly set us up for the 
unexpected before. 

And as stated by s_karmol:
"If the death was hard for her to write, that might not mean it's 
because she liked the character, it might be difficult because of 
who will be affected by it". 

It could also mean that the death was rather painful for the victim. 
As stated by Melanie L Ellis:
"but instead "horrible" because she chose to write a nasty, dark, 
awful torturous death for someone that we may or may not know yet?"

Now I say all that to say this. Sure it won't be meatier if a small 
character but I don't think it would be any less meaningful to Harry 
or us as the reader. For arguments sake let's say it is Dobby. Just 
because is a secondary character doesn't mean that Harry won't be 
affected by his death. It has been shown that Harry is a very 
compassionate person. He hardly knew Cedric and his death affected 
him. I think that at this point Harry would feel any death is 
senseless and would feel that it was somewhat his fault. Making him 
want to fight Voldie even more to stop things from getting out of 
hand. To stop him before he had a chance to kill DD, Hermione, Ron 
or any other important character.

~shinesse~
*Who hopes she quoted everyone right and that it all made sense. Now 
grabs her books and goes back to lurking.*