Deaths in the Series

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 192174

Sherry:
I also thought the death of Tonks was unnecessary, and since we didn't get
to see any of Teddy's life, the supposed reason being that it is like Harry
and that Teddy could grow up quite differently, doesn't really matter.

Dave:
I agree.  In general, I was very disappointed in the direction JKR went 
with Tonks -- She started out as a sprightly, somewhat sassy, 
"Moliere-Maid" type, which I loved.  But then she made Tonks into this 
tragic character whose intense (perhaps codependent) love for Remus 
trumped everything.  And we know from interviews that killing off Remus 
and Tonks was an eleventh-hour decision on JKR's part, in order to make 
some trivial contrast between Harry and Teddy which, as Sherry points 
out, has little or no impact on the reader.

Dave