GoF CH 27-29 Post DH look/ Snape and Harry redux

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 182222

> > Magpie:
> > Lupin was dead by the end of the series, but in a battle where most 
> > people seemed to survive. I consider him one that pretty much made 
it 
> > through. He died as a random combatant in that last battle where 
> > everybody was fighting--and plenty, including children and people 
who 
> > had not really fought before--survived. 
> 
> zgirnius:
> I disagree. Voldemort made a point of suggesting Bellatrix eliminate 
> Lupin and Tonks. This is why I thought they died in the battle, 
because 
> they were singled out. I suppose this just shows our differnt gut 
> reactions to the deaths, since they were not on page. But the 
specific 
> mention of them in Chapter 1 suggested it to me, anyway.

Magpie:
Bellatrix had good reason to go after Sirius too--in both cases, the 
people she killed had sullied her family. I think that was the danger 
there far more than their being in the Order. But also in both cases it 
came down to a fight between Bellatrix and the other person, and 
there's no reason any of the three of them were necessarily going to go 
down. They were in a battle so were being targetted by probably many 
opponents at once. Bellatrix didn't hunt any of these three down, they 
were all crimes of opportunity. They died with other people in the 
battle.

Bellatrix herself was targetted by Molly Weasley of all people, and 
Molly won. 

-m