Deaths in DH WAS: Re: Dumbledore (but more Snape)

[va32h]

No: HPFGUIDX 177448

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:
>> And same with mourning rituals for me. Don't you think that if she 
> should show them for Lupin and Tonks she should show them for all 50 
> soldiers and civilians who fallen in the Battle of Hogwarts?
> 
> I mean, it is obvious to me that they would be properly buried and 
> mourned and one scene when Harry sees them lying there made me cry 
> more than long ritual would have, I think.

va32h:

Of course not.  We haven't known all 50 or so "soldiers and civilians" 
over the course of several books.  We have known Fred since book one, 
and Lupin since book 3 and both of them were deeply important to Harry. 

So "they died" just doesn't cut it for me, as a reader.  

And let me stress that I am not asking for 1,000 pages of angst-ridden 
heartbreak...or a huge dramatic death scene for every character.  I 
know extremely well how mundane death can be in the midst of a battle. 

But that should not be an excuse to just gloss over it. 

My husband has watched his fellow soliders die and let me tell you - no 
matter how mundane or boring or non-heroic their death was, every 
single one of them gets the same amount of attention and respect.  The 
guy who died in the middle of the mess hall of a heart attack gets the 
same attention and honor as the guy who got shot in the face as the guy 
who was just minding his own business and had the back luck to be 
standing where an IED got thrown. 

At some point we're just talking in circles...I'm glad you like the 
book, really.  I just don't, and the more I think about it, the more 
disappointed I am. 

va32h