Why down on all the characters?

[kiricat4001]

No: HPFGUIDX 179312

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "leslie41" <leslie41 at ...> ?
 
> It's as if she wanted to "prove" what a terrible threat Voldemort 
was 
> by just knocking off beloved characters willy-nilly.  But it felt 
> extremely forced, and just plain wrong.  Bad writing.  Bad writing 
to 
> kill Lupin offstage and not devote the attention to that event 
that 
> was deserved.  Maybe not as much as Snape's demise received, but 
for 
> god's sake give us something!  

Marianne:

I agree with your sentiments regarding Lupin, but I'd put it down to 
the decision to have another orphan in order to come full circle. 
One of my big disappointments were the arcs of Tonks and Lupin, who 
were mashed into that lovely, touching romance that nearly had Remus 
running screaming into the night.  She needed a couple to fulfill 
parental duties and then she had to get rid of them.  They probably 
were reduced to the second-tier level of dying because there were 
too many other things to take care of to devote pages to their 
demise. 

Leslie:
 
> It's got to be hard to reconcile Snape as a hero for people that 
hate 
> him so, and within the context of the book he's in many ways as 
much 
> a hero as Harry.  This is supported by JKR herself (not that this 
> matters, necessarily), who has in interviews underscored his 
bravery 
> and his ability to love, and said that Harry himself will place 
> Snape's portrait in the Headmaster's office.  She agrees he's mean 
> and vindictive, but one cannot exit DH without getting the 
distinct 
> feeling that Snape went above and beyond the call of duty, beyond 
> what was required of him because of his love for Lily.  To my 
mind, 
> he's her greatest character, but I've admired him for awhile.  
> 
> I can only say that if I had been wrong, and he'd been on the side 
of 
> evil all along, I'd now be feeling terribly ill-served, and angry, 
> and I imagine that's how some people that have always hated him 
must 
> feel.

Marianne:
I can't stand Snape.  Never have. Never will, but I was not 
disappointed in JKR revealing the brave things he did. I'd agree 
that he's her best-constructed character. I ended up finding him a 
pathetic figure in many ways.  Brave, yes, but also another one of 
those characters who was stuck in the past.  I understood how his 
love for Lily drove him, but I saw it as an obsessive love, 
which ,while it made Snape ultimately do the right things, never 
seemed to enable him to understand that Lily loved other people. The 
idea of Snape rummaging through Grimmauld Place through the 
possessions of a man he hated, looking for whatever bits of Lily he 
could find was just creepy in my book.  

But, count yourself among the lucky ones who can leave the series 
with feeling your favorite character was well served. My favorite 
characters are Sirius and Lupin, so I leave with a certain level of 
dissatisfaction in how they ended up, aside from other issues I've 
had with various themes of the books.

Marianne