Reflection on DH ( and its deaths, from a fan of Sirius, Remus and Tonks)

[javalorum]

No: HPFGUIDX 174741

pattiemgsybb:
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> Couldn't we at least have seen the kick-it Auror Tonks take out ONE
> Death-Eater?  Why not let Lupin send Fenrir to the great beyond?
> Nope.  They just die out of sight, out of hearing, out of any
> reality of the battle.  It's as though JKR couldn't take the
> trouble to write a real ending for them.
>
> I do love many aspects of each novel, and in fact there were many
> scenes in DH that I found quite moving or exciting -- but I hated
> the treatment of Sirius in OotP and I hate the treatment of Remus
> and Tonks in DH.


I agree. I don't mind good characters dying. I just hated the way
they were twisted to make room for the plot to fit in. It looks as if
the author planned the orphan first, then set out to look for the
parents. Since she decided on the Lupins, they had to get married
very quickly. At the end of HBP, I had thought Lupin and Tonks merely
agreed to go out. It's kind of hard to imagine they ended up getting
married within a month after DD died. Then just as quickly, they had
a kid, all because Tonks had to go through the entire pregnancy, then
recover well enough to fight the last battle. From where HBP left off
to the end of the battle, there's only about 12 month. Minus 9 month
pregnancy, 1 month or so to recover, that leaves only 2 months to get
married and make a baby.

I would have liked it a lot better if this doesn't feel as if everything was worked out in reverse order.

Java