"Bad Snapers," Karma, and the End of Snape (was Re: Of Sorting and Snape)

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 175553

> Carol responds:
> Death in these books as in life is ever-present and unpredictable. But
> death is worse for the survivors than it is for the dead, judging from
> DD and Harry's loved ones and Lupin, the last Marauder. Unless, of
> course, you're Voldemort, who feared death and tried to prevent it by
> murderous and unnatural means.

Montavilla47:
You know, I just noticed something weird about death in these 
books:  The *only* natural death that takes place within the books
is the death of Aragog.

Every other death *within* the books (as opposed to the deaths
of Harry's grandparents) involves murder.