Which scene we hated more or loved WAS: Re: Why not Actually Re-Write?

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 180264

> KJ writes:
>    I'm not sure which scene I hated the most, there are quite a 
few, but 
> one that bugs me, is Harry walking through the forest to give 
himself up 
> to die.  Having his parents, Sirius, and Lupin there just made the 
gag 
> reflex worse.  I recall on the list when many of us thought that 
Harry 
> would offer up his life, most of the list came down like a ton of 
bricks 
> quoting teen suicide statistics.  I expected to see Harry go in a 
fight, 
> not the way JKR killed him. That whole story line is just silly.


Alla:

Hee, to each their own. LOVED that scene. Cried a lot when read it. 
I totally expected the sacrifice from Harry - was hoping that it 
will not needed or something will save him, but thought it to be 
very likely. Harry doing it I mean. I cannot offer my old posts, but 
I seem to remember I did.

I mean, I thought sacrifice at the end will be very thematically 
appropriate.

And of course I did not see it as suicide or anything like that. I 
saw it as conscious decision and not Dumbledore related either - 
loved that Dumbledore was not among the people Harry called on.

See, even now I am typing it, I am amazed at how well she does 
shortcuts IMO. Not many words about how Harry was hurt by what he 
heard Dumbledore wanting him to die, whether it was true or not. 
Only - Dumbledore's betrayal was almost nothing AND Dumbledore is 
not among his loved ones. I thought it was brilliant personally.

IMO

Alla.