Why the Celebration in DH?

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 187312

Potioncat wrote:
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> So having a wedding 4 days after Moody's death seems---unfeeling. Yet, the wedding was being planned all along. Just a few days before the wedding most of the wedding party risked their lives to get Harry. Anyone could have died in that raid. So they must have given some thought to "what if" and decided to go on with the ceremony regardless of outcome.
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> And I'm sure that's what Moody would have wanted.
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Carol responds:

I'm not surprised at all that the wedding was celebrated so shortly after Moody's death. Look at all the parties and celebrations that were held on the very night that the Potters were killed, the news of Voldemort's defeat having somehow spread throughout the WW very quickly. Those celebrations always struck me as callous (and I don't even like the Potters), but I suppose the good news outweighed the bad in the minds of most people, even those (like Dedalus Diggle) who had personally known James and Lily (McGonagall and Hagrid excepted; even DD asks McGonagall why she isn't celebrating twenty-four later--apparently the parties are still going on). So it doesn't surprise me at all that Bill and Fleur continued with their wedding plans despite the death of a tough old Auror who was ready to die in the line of duty at any point. And I agree that Mad-eye would have wanted it that way. A celebration that size, though? They might as well have invited Madame Maxime and her house-size carriage and advertised it to the whole country. 

Carol, who thinks that Lupin and Tonks had the right idea with their small, nearly secret wedding, news of which got out anyway