Lupin and Tonks *Was: Deathly Hallows: My Review )

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No: HPFGUIDX 172503

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tenne" <tenne at ...> wrote:
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> The twins would always depend on themselves and most likely never
really grow up or apart.  Now George has no choice but to become a
person, not just a twin

I agreed with a lot of this post, but Fred & George... there may be
some truth in what you said.  I know I never really took too much time
to think of which twin was saying what.  They weren't really
individuals to me.  They were a team.  But something Harry said when
he gave the twins his goblet of fire winnings comes back to me - that
the world will need laughs in the time to come.

A lot of laughs went out of the world with Fred gone.  Characters that
die in the last book of a series (or episode of a tv show or movie in
a series) don't affect me as much as ones that leave earlier on. 
Because while they're gone for the characters, we're really saying
goodbye to everyone - and we don't have to really see a world in which
they aren't present.

I found the deaths very sad - Lupin was one of my favorites, and poor
hedwig, and Dobby who never got the love and respect he deserved... 

But a world without Fred... a George without Fred...  there's nothing
sadder than I can imagine.  I don't know if perhaps JKR thought it
might be easier to lose a character who was really only 1/2 of a
whole.  Or if she knew how hard that would be.  But I think the loss
of Fred represents the true sacrifice - a less innocent world, even
with Voldemorte gone, to lose someone who with his last breath was
joking, and impact his twin who we can imagine will never be quite the
same.

Not sure what my overriding point was supposed to be, or turned out to
be.  But I sure wish Fred had only lost an eye, instead of his life.