Colin Creevey: Flint or not? (was Re: Hedwig's death)

[kamion53]

No: HPFGUIDX 183623

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...>
wrote:
Potioncat:
> I think JKR gave considerable thought as to who would die and how
> they would die. Not that every reader is going to cheer her
> decisions, of course. Between this scene, and the one with Ginny
> tending the un-named girl who wanted to go home, we're reminded of
> how young these warriors are.
>
> Also, bodies were being brought in before Slughorn arrived with
> reinforcements. Almost all of them would have been students and we
> would have known some of them. It was kindness that we didn't see a
> list of names posted on the wall.

Kamion answers:
I agree with you that JKR gave considerable thought about who would
die, I even thinks she worked it quite through in what kind of
relation the dying stood to Harry. Throughout her work death creeps
closer and closer to Harry, starting with a brother-in-arms (Cedric),
she takes away ever more aspects of life: Cedric = friendship, Sirius
= family, Dumbledore = guidance, Moody = protection, Hedwig =
innocence, Dobby = desire for freedom.
Where does Creevey fit in? That is my problem, he does not loom high
on Harry's list and I cannot come up with an aspect, that symbolises
an important part of Harry's life. To be honest Colin Creevey was
quite dispendable. I would have had more peace with the situation
Neville was bringing in an anonymous victim, that would picture the
same state of sorrow. Maybe I just liked Colin in all his annoyance a
bit too much, to see him cast off as collateral damage.