Killing Harry (was Re: This moment.

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No: HPFGUIDX 175367

Eggplant: 
> As I've said before my moment of Epiphany came when I read near the
> bottom of page 687 "From the tip of his [Snape's] wand burst the
> silver doe". I wasn't expecting that, I wasn't expecting that at 
all,
> and I couldn't even finish reading the rest of the sentence; I had 
to
> put the book down stand up and walk away for a while. She's going to
> do it I thought, she's really going to do it, JKR is going to murder
> Harry Potter! For years I'd been saying that's exactly what she 
should
> do, but now when I actually saw JKR with a gun pointed at Harry's 
head
> just a moment before she's going to pull the trigger, well, all I 
can
> say is it took me some time to work up the courage to continue 
reading.
> 


Potioncat:
Cannot decide how to snip, so won't.

So, tell me. Once you came back, was it a satisfying plot twist? Was 
there something different about thinking she would really kill him, 
and having thought she should? Did the resolution work? In that 
period between putting the book down and picking it up, what were you 
hoping/expecting would happen?

I'm asking because there were a few plot twists that I didn't like, 
until I realised how they managed the expected in an unexpected way. 
And I'm not giving examples, because that would change the topic too 
much, and I'm interested in your point of view on this topic.