Reactions (was Re: Did you LIKE Snape?

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 183212

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...> 
wrote:
 
> Off hand, I don't remember if we saw any other bad guys die.


zanooda:

How about Wormtail? Maybe he is not pure evil, but I still consider 
him a bad guy, and we saw him die :-). For me, it was a rather 
shocking death - I didn't expect anything like this. I didn't feel 
even a little pity for him for some reason though.


> potioncat wrote:

> How did the rest of you react to the deaths in the series?


zanooda:

No time right now to write about every single death, just a few that 
popped into my head.
 
Dumbledore - I was in total shock (and cried). I don't know much 
about literature, so I had no idea that HP was some kind of 
Bidungsroman (did I spell it right, Carol? :-)), where the hero's 
mentor is supposed to die so that the hero could continue on his 
journey alone. The possibility that DD could die never even crossed 
my mind. I found out about Bildungsroman (?) only later, after I 
joined this group.

Sirius - I was not very emotional about him (which means that I 
didn't cry :-)), but I definitely felt sorry about his death. He was 
such a young man (compared to me, anyway :-)), and he had so much to 
live for. He was not at his best in OotP (understandable!), but I saw 
in earlier books the person that he could be. Besides, Harry needed 
him ;-(.

Dobby - I still cry every time I read it ;-(.

Fred - it was very unexpected to me. I mean, I was afraid that one 
(or both) of the twins could die, but, when George lost his ear, I 
somehow decided that JKR was done with the twins and they would stay 
alive. Then, when I was sure it wouldn't be any of them, she killed 
Fred just like that :-)!

Lupin and Tonks - again, not very much emotion on my part, but I felt 
very sorry for Lupin - he's just learned how to be happy, and he had 
so little time to enjoy this new happiness ;-(. 

Bella - I was glad that she died. Consider me bloodthirsty, but I 
really hoped that someone would kill her at last. I remember 
thinking "Finally!" when Molly killed her.

That's all that comes to mind right now ...