Do we need any more death cases?

[mysmacek]

No: HPFGUIDX 90876

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nkafkafi" <nkafkafi at y...> wrote:
> Andrew wrote:
> > 
> > My I draw your thoughts, to a famous childrens book, written many 
> > years ago, in a less free society. This book, as it happens, is 
> > named The Hobbit. There is tons of killing in that book, villagers, 
> > spiders, and main character dwarves. Is it impossible that JKR may 
> > kill of main charactars, no.
> 
> 
> A more relevant example may be LOTR, with a full-scale war and a very 
> high body count. I can recall the death of only one major character 
> in LOTR (Boromir, of course. Theoden was hardly a major character in 
> the book, as opposed to the movies), and again with a very good 
> moral. 

Unless, of course, you take the end of LOTR as an allegory of death -
it's even explicitly said by Gandalf in the movie.

Mysmacek