Character Given A Reprieve

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 175432

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, SnapesSlytherin at ... wrote:
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> I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm upset with JKR about how she 
portrayed the character who got a reprieve.? It sounded to me as though 
she meant a character who was supposed to die *in the last book* 
would not die after all.?  

Pippin:

She was talking about the end of the series, which we knew was some
kind of epilogue, so I always thought it could be a character who was
supposed to appear in the epilogue but had died along the way.

In fact, I thought that the character referred to was  Mad-eye, and that he'd
been meant to die in  GoF, but I was wrong. I'm not terribly sorry she killed
off Lupin. He *knew* that Snape knew his secret and was faithfully keeping 
it (though not above dropping a hint now and then) and he still didn't try 
to stop James and co.  

Talk about ungrateful!  That's the first time I ever really felt disgusted with
canon!Lupin. I'm not saying he deserved to die for that, of course, just
that I think that, having redeemed himself from his cowardice, it was time
for him to go. 

Poor Sev! Trying so hard not to say 'werewolf' and 'mudblood' slips out instead.

Tonks' death, I think, was meant as a counterpart to Merope's, and to show
that the WW has improved a bit since her time. Orphaned Teddy is accepted
despite his werewolf father and bloodtraitor mum.

Pippin