Significance of missing line (was: HBP paperback)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 156077

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" <gbannister10 at ...> wrote:
>
> 
> That's not much information on which to build a character important 
> enough to be brought back from the dead.  I see her as a version of 
> the red shirt wearers in the original Start Trek series.
>

Pippin:
That's just it. JKR doesn't go in for red shirts very much. 

Cedric started out to be a perfect red shirt character, and then Harry had to
spend the whole next book being devastated. Now we're starting to see that 
even a Death Eater's death might matter to someone. 

We're not supposed to see death as inconsequential. A named Order 
member who dies unmourned and apparently unmissed sticks out a 
little too much to be a nobody, IMO.

Anyway, it's very odd that no Order member, other than Snape, ever mentions
that Emmeline is dead.

Pippin