Harry Potter in general

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 190623



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nerona" <nerona12 at ...> wrote:
>
> As for Dobby, I can not see the point why he died, although he
> died saving Harry and his friends but what's the point???
> as for his OWL I also felt that she died for no reason at all she
> could have stayed in the end, she's just an owl.
> 

Pippin:
To set up her big climax scene in the Great Hall, JKR had to get rid of everyone, high or low, who would throw themselves between Harry and his enemies.

We wouldn't expect Hedwig to do less for her master than Fawkes, would we? 

Dobby had already shown that he would not let Harry put himself in danger if it was elvishly possible to stop it. So JKR had to make it impossible. 

I'd like to add, as a comment on the discussion generally, that JKR may have had more reasons than she gave for getting rid of Lupin. Sirius would have been an odd man out in the Forest if it was just him and Harry's parents. (For the same reason, IMO, Tonks is not there with Lupin.) 

 Also, Andromeda Tonks nee Black shows that successful parents can come from Slytherin families,  and letting her raise Teddy emphasizes that.

Pippin