AU (was Re: Hedwig's death (Was: 23, Malfoy Manor/What a Book)

[kamion53]

No: HPFGUIDX 183574

---  "potioncat"  wrote:

> One of the best moments reading DH with my son was just after
> we discovered Colin Creevey had died. "Wasn't he Muggleborn?"
> I asked.

> My son thought a moment, "Hey, he shouldn't have been at
> Hogwarts! Just, think, if J. K. Rowling had a better memory,
> Colin would still be alive today."

> OK, no more sweet, reading with my son stories.  ;-)

Kamion replies:
You're correct that Colin was not supposed to be at Hogwarts as
being Muggleborn, but in the Battle of Hogwarts neither was Cho
Chang, who graduated - for as much there were graduations that
year - the year before. Colin as well as Cho responded to the
messages sent out through the coins of Dumbledore's Army, sent
by Fred and George and only returned at that critical moment
to Hogwarts, with fatal complications for Colin. Needless to
say his death was a completely unneccesary one and it baffled
me what purpose it served.