[HPforGrownups] Re: Dumbledore (but more Snape)

[OctobersChild48 at aol.com]

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va32h:

I have no knowledge of anything regarding Lord of the  Rings. Never 
seen a film or read one of the books. 
Sandy:
 
Neither have I, so any comparisons between it and HP fall on deaf ears for  
me.
 

va32h:

I'm not talking about mourning within the series - but  specifically 
in terms of DH, there is no mourning for a character whose  death 
actually affects people. Dobby's death is sad, sure, but there's no  
Mrs. Dobby to worry about how she's going to pay the bills, or little  
Dobbies having to ponder a life without daddy. It's an "easy" 
mourning  because the characters can just say (essentially) "bummer" 
and go on about  their business. Dealing with Fred's death, or 
Lupin's death would actually  require some sort of effort to you know, 
think about how that loss affects  the other characters and how that 
would be conveyed in the story. But JKR  just takes the easy (lazy) 
way out yet again.  



Sandy:
 
I liked the epilogue as it was written - with one exception. My first  
reaction upon finishing it was; what about George, what about Molly?! The actual  
ending of the book was totally unsatisfactory. I felt there should have been at  
least one more chapter dealing with the aftermath. How could she just gloss 
over  the death of Fred like she did? What was life like for George? Twins are 
a  unique dynamic and there was no better example of that than Fred and 
George. How  did Molly deal with the loss of one of her two favorite children? 
 
 

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..heartbreak..<WBR>.or a huge dramatic death scene for eve 
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. 
 
 
Sandy:
 
Just one more chapter would have done it. Dumbledore's funeral was done in  
one chapter and the same could have been done for Fred. I am not belittling  
Lupin's death, but Teddy did at least get a mention in the epilogue. Not a word  
about George. I loved the twins, and was profoundly affected by Fred's death. 
I  was already pissed off by the way she killed him. A wall crumbling on 
him?! What  was the point? So she crumbles a wall on him and kills him and the 
only other  mention of him is his body lying in the Great Hall with the others. 
Grrrrrrr.  The book was incomplete. Two months after the fact I am still 
mourning the loss  of Fred, which is more than anyone in the books seems to have 
done - all thanks  to JKR.
 
Sandy




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