[HPforGrownups] Re: CHAPDISC: DH1, The Dark Lord Ascending

[Kimberly]

No: HPFGUIDX 176248


>Geoff:

>I have to admit that I haven't had time to really look at the
>thread on Chapter 1 but looking at the questions set for the
>OWL candidates, one has occurred to me which isn't on the list
>and I wonder whether other group members might have any
>theories....

>Why did JKR create Charity Burbage, Professor of Muggle Studies,
>just to be killed by Voldemort in Chapter 1?


Kimberly:
    For me, her character and death indicated how war affects those not even 
involved in
it.  We see that someone who is very peripheral, could be a casualty.  You 
have countries that
are at war and an innocent, never heard of individual is killed in a 
car-bombing.  We get a
brief glimpse of someone and then they're gone.
    It also was rather successful in setting the tone of the book.  There 
would be deaths and that
was just the beginning.

Kimberly