Deaths in the Series

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 192165

Bart:
> Doing this with numbered questions (like the listelves)....
> 
> 1) JKR had a knack for getting you to care about a character, then 
> killing the character off (most blatantly with Cedric, but certainly 
> with others). Which character's death upset you the most (and why)?

Pippin:
Snape, definitely, because I was so attached to him. But I would like to think his portrait was eventually installed in the Headmaster's Office, and so much of what made him entertaining lives on.

> 
> 2) Some deaths were pretty much required for the plot to go on (most 
> notably, the death of Harry Potter's parents). Some were a little more 
> subtle. What were some of the deaths you considered to be necessary for 
> the story (and, of course, why)?
 
> 3) And, of course, because people do die in wars, some of the deaths 
> were pretty much gratuitous. But it can be argued that JKR went 
> overboard in some cases, killing characters just for the sake of adding 
> to the death tolls. Which character's death do you consider to be the 
> most gratuitous (and, most importantly, why?).
> 

Pippin:
I don't think any of the deaths were gratuitous in the sense that they are just there for entertainment purposes, like targets in a video game or victims in a horror movie. I think they are all there to show how wrong young Dumbledore was to think he could have a war in which no more force was used than was necessary.

The trouble is, as Harry discovered, that  people  in extreme situations cannot be counted on  to use only the force that is necessary. They will use all the force that they have.

Pippin