Harry lives... OK?

[Charles Walker Jr]

No: HPFGUIDX 172383

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pswannkcrrcom" <pswann at ...> wrote:
> For me...Hedwig. This loss was totally unexpected and devastating. I
> mourn the people we lost but they had a choice about fighting. Hedwig
> was an innocent--just taking care of Harry.
>
Charles: 
I might never forgive JKR for killing off Hedwig. There wasn't any
real point to it. It was just a matter of convenience for her. I can
see her right now, sitting down to write, thinking, "What'll I do
about that damn owl?"

I had watched the interview where she said the book was going to be a
bloodbath, and I expected deaths. Mad-Eye, Remus, Fred, untold numbers
of muggles and muggle-borns. But Hedwig's death served no other
purpose than the disposal of an inconvenience to the story.

That being said, the death that really got to me emotionally was
Dobby. You can ask my wife, I was TORN UP! I always get emotionally
involved in a story, but that scene is where I had the most emotional
involvement in the book. By the time we got to the final battle, I was
fairly numb to the deaths. A little twinge, and I moved on.

Charles, still upset about Dobby.