Harry lives... OK?

[ronnie]

No: HPFGUIDX 173370

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

ronnie:

My favorite characters in the series are Remus Lupin, Severus Snape 
and Hermione Granger. 
With the anxious anticipation for the DH, I was certain that Snape is 
not going to last, whichever theory about him will turn out to be 
right. Even though I was expecting this, I was terribly upset when it 
at last happened (I never expectes a reconsiliation scene between him 
and Harry, and thought (or "knew" :))that the Harry's insight into 
Snape's motives would be post mortem. 

For Lupin's sake, however, I was earnestly praying for month, and boy 
did I cry when his death was anounced. 2 out of my 3 favorites 
killed... 
It really was bloodbath, and as I was reading the book, my husband 
(and other's I've met) kept enduring my kreacher-like mumbling about 
JKR: "Murderer... [censor]... [censor]... insane woman... aggressive 
bitch [oops.. censor didn't make it here]... how dare you kill X... I 
know where you live and I will evenge (unfortunatly, I don't)... you 
should get therapy..." 

And let me quote my husband, who doesn't share my HP mania, but still 
read the first three books: "How on earth did this septology, which 
began with a naive children's book, become a mass slaughtering". 
Well, even so, I'm glad of it.