Why down on all the characters?

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No: HPFGUIDX 179326

Jeanette: "It just might be me but since the release of DH there seems
to be a very negative feel to a lot of the posts. People are trashing
JKR as a writer, people are trashing the various once-loved
characters... <snip>


Stephanie:

I'm with you.  I'm all for debate, but I wonder why people who hate
DH, call the story evil, whatever, are stil bothering to post on this
list.  I'm not saying that those opinions aren't valid - everyone has
a right to their opinions.  I just wonder why they're wasting their
time in such a manner.

One thing I always kept in my mind as I was reading is that JKR's
primary audience was not adults, but children.  Kids don't analyze
books as adults do, and look at things from a different perspective
than adults.  Some of the things that might bother adults might make
perfect sense to kids.  It doesn't mean that the standards should be
lowered just because the books are written for kids, it's just that we
have to keep in mind that they were written for kids.

BTW, I'm not saying that the story was perfect.  I could have lived
without the Hallows, and the Elder Wand thing was just confusing.  The
Horcrux hunt was enough of a story.  I also never really bought the
Ginny/Harry romance because it seemed to come out of nowhere in HBP.
It was sort of, "Cho's gone, oh, hey, isn't Ginny grown up now!." I do
understand why Ron and Hermione liked each other - each had qualities
the other lacked, and JKR was building their relationship since CoS,
which made it much more believable.  She wrote Ron in such a way as to
make Hermione a bit out of his league, which is I suppose the way Ron
saw her, but I always thought it was a bit much to write Ron as still
being upset over something that had happened two years earlier in GOF.
 JKR did have Ron redeem himself in a big way in DH, though.

I do think that there could have been more of an ending to the book
prior to the Epilogue, something like "The Scouring of the Shire" in
LOTR.  As someone else wrote, DH was already more than 700 pages,
would another 20 have been such a big deal?

As for the death of Lupin, it fits with the fate of the other
Marauders.  She killed all of them off, plus Snape, leaving no one of
Harry's parents' generation left alive, at least in terms of
characters we've heard about.  I don't know what her motivation was,
perhaps she decided that the past was gone and Harry's generation was
a new start.  I do think she could have left Tonks, though.  Don't
know why Tonks couldn't have been a single mom.  I always thought a
Weasley would die, but thought it would be Percy after he realized he
was on the wrong side.  I suppose that would be a bit cliched, though,
having a character redeem himself only to be killed off.

As always, all of this is just IMHO.  Feel free to disagree.

Stephanie