... upcoming deaths

[Arya]

No: HPFGUIDX 98842

"jksunflower2002" <TOAD> wrote:
> Death is the most important theme throughout all seven books. "More 
> people are going to die. One death is going to horrible to write.  
> IT HAS TO BE." 
> 
> Sounds to me as if Sirius was perhaps the BIG DEATH, and that she 
> doesn't expect the rest of the deaths to have much of an impact on 
> us (obscure students, family of the students, DE's.)  I don't 
know.  
> It's difficult to reconcile these quotes with the ominous warnings 
> of impending deaths that she's been hinting at for a few years 
now.  
> Until I read these quotes, I was expecting a blood bath (with Bill 
> getting my top vote as first Weasley to be offed.)
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I disagree that Sirius was the 'horrible' death.  It wasn't horrible 
at all.  He_fell_thru_a_veil!  You blinked and you missed it!  It was 
there one minute and gone the next.  His loss was one of hope and 
promise for a future that Harry had wanted--not one of loss for 
friendship/kinship that Harry relied upon.  (He was getting there 
but, really, they never had time to get close--really close.)  

'Horrible' to me means it's going to hurt--badly.  Sirius's death 
sucked, yeah, sure but I didn't cry.  I wasn't torn up about it and, 
as far as watching someone gets killed goes, seeing Sirius fail back 
is pretty danm tame.  

Now 'horrible' will either be something gruesome or someone very 
close (Ron, Hermione *are* fair game.)  or both.  Dumbledore is 
likely to bite it before the end--if he grows close to Harry in the 
wake of Sirius' death, then this could be 'horrible'.  The other 
Weasley's (beside Ron) would likely have to be killed in a somewaht 
more brutal fashion in front if HArry for those to be 'horrible'.  
Heck, I think even McGonagall's off-page death would be 
more 'horrible' than what we saw with Sirius--at least she has a very 
huge day-to-day impact on Harry's life at school.  Her death could 
even be more anomic than Hagrid's.  

Arya
(who thinks there are many characters we've only been led to love so 
that we will miss them when they die)