Do we need any more death cases?

[nkafkafi]

No: HPFGUIDX 89924

> Hitomi wrote:
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> Again, not trying to be needlessly argumentative Neri, but who 
> says?  The readers.  We don't know where JKR is going with this, 
> it's her plot.  So maybe another death is most necessary.  We don't 
> know.  I sincerely hope not, but I'm not going to throw away the 
> possiblity, if you know what I mean.  And the war could make the 
> next two books a whole lot darker; JKR said it was going to get 
> dark, and Book 2 wasn't exactly sunshine and daisies.  I guess I'm 
> just letting myself expect the worse, as well as hope for the 
best.  
> Makes the whole aura permeating the Harry Potter series more 
> exciting, at any rate.
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Neri now:
Hitomi, I'm with you in almost everything. Sorry if I came across 
argumentative (which was only because I *am* argumentative :-). It 
goes without saying that all this was only my personal opinion and my 
personal prediction, which are no better than that of any other 
reader. Of course JKR will do whatever she wants with her characters. 
She is not in any way committed to my opinion or to the results of my 
(not very sound) statistical analysis of other writers' work. But the 
point of the statistics was that, indeed, good writers usually (not 
always) don't like killing their main characters, even at times of 
war, and I don't think JKR is exceptional in this. Well, I admit that 
JKR is very good at creating a large number of different major 
characters, all very interesting and likable (even those who are not 
so nice...) so maybe she considers them more expendable, relative to 
writers that are not so prolific. But I doubt it. Does a mother of 
seven love each of them less than a mother of two?  

What I'm trying to say is, with JKR's talent for hints, red herrings 
and sarcastic humor, it is very easy for all of us to come up with 
posts like "yesterday in the middle of the night I woke up with a 
very bad feeling about Ron and the axe man". You know, those 
Trelawney-like posts. OK, Prof. Trelawney *was* right twice in her 
career, but this doesn't make her more tactful, and we all know what 
is JKR's opinion about her. It would be admittedly more difficult, 
but I think also more productive, to explain how and why it will be 
right (in the context of the plot, theme and other characters' 
development) for Ron to die.

Neri

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