Character Development

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 179145


> At least we got to see Augusta Longbottom (Neville's gran), being
> something other than a tyrannical grandmother and we got to meet
> Andromeda Black Tonks, but other characters with defined personalities
> (as opposed to mere names) turned out to be just filler. Why introduce
> little Dennis Creevey, who fell into the lake and was rescued by the
> Giant Squid--not to mention somehow sneaks out to Hogsmeade to attend
> the first DA meeting when he's only a second year, if he's not going
> to play a role? It's his brother, Colin, who fights in the battle and
> dies young. (Could it be *Dennis* Creevey that McGonagall orders to
> stay with the evacuees? Not that either of them should be there as
> they're Muggle-borns.)
> 
>
Pippin:
We heard Ron and Hermione briefly planning how she could pretend
to have wizarding ancestors. I assume Colin and Dennis were able to pull it 
off, perhaps because the DE's found it easier to believe that they had 
wizarding ancestry than that two Muggleborns could be born to the same 
parents. That Colin had a brother makes his death more poignant since
we know there's someone who'll miss him.

Pippin