Harry lives... OK?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 172240

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Katie" <anigrrrl2 at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
> <gbannister10@> 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:
> 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

Geoff:
It's an amazing coincidence that your reply is the first to my question. 
I nearly gave my own view in my last post and, like you, I was trying 
to choose between Hedwig and Dobby. Hedwig's death really did hit 
me - after I read the sentence twice for it to sink in. She has been so 
much of a support to Harry in her own way that there is a great gap 
which he obviously feels from time to time. I get the same feeling 
even if I only walk my dogs and one of them is missing; the whole 
balance changes.