[HPforGrownups] Link to JKR Dateline Interview (was Re: The deaths of Tonks and Lupin (was: "Bad Snapers," Karma, and the End of Snape ))

[Christine Maupin]

No: HPFGUIDX 175619

Lanval:
 > You got me at a total loss there. I neither know what to make of 
 > Tonks's death, nor of the purpose named by JKR. If she wanted to 
 > show a happy orphan (maybe that was important to her? did she feel 
 > she had showed orphans, or rather the people who adopt/raise them, 
 > in a a bit too negative a light?) she didn't have too many choices; 
 > it was either Teddy, or for Bill and Fleur to have a child and then 
 > die. There aren't too many young couples around that we've *met*. 
 > But -- still. 
 
 Potioncat
>JKR said in her Dateline interview that she considered every death 
 >carefully. She wanted to mirror Harry's state in this case (IRRC). 
>She was going to kill Arthur, but he was the last of Harry's father 
>figures and she felt that was too much.
 
>I don't know if there is a link for this interview, but I felt a lot 
>better after seeing it. Knowing why she wrote some of the scenes gave 
>a different perspective. 

Here's a link to MSNBC's webpage that has the interview and links to other NBC/JKR stuff.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20001720

Christy

       
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