Harry lives... OK?

[Katie]

No: HPFGUIDX 172232

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at ...> wrote:
>
> I am so greatly relieved that Harry made it through. I think my 
fingernails just about survived 
> to last Saturday! I hope that all members of the IWHTLC will agree 
with me in declaring the 
> 21st July a public holiday.
> 
> I am left breathless by the book but we must remember the words of 
the Duke of Wellington 
> about Waterloo that it was "a damned close-run" thing. We lost a 
lot of good people... I 
> wonder whose loss affected you most?
>

KATIE REPLIES:

It's a tie between Dobby and Hedwig. I knew we would lose 
wizards...I had never considered the possibility of Hedwig dying. 
That death actually caused me to drop my book in horror. And I 
thought, ok, JK, lay it on me. It's the second chapter, for 
godssake. And the whole scene with Dobby, from Harry pulling the 
knife out of him, to everyone helping bury him, to the free elf 
insciption on his grave, tore me up. I was seriously distressed over 
Dobby. Of course, Fred and Lupin were also rough, but I sort of 
expected that. Katie