nattybatty55 said:
As much as I hated to see the death of Lupin and Tonks and think it was the right thing for JK to do! I mean a part from the weasleys (apart from Fred) and Hagrid -well lets face it you just can't kill him! There was know one REALLY left to care for Harry anymore which made ending even more better! Do you know what I mean?
I understand that Rowling had a point in killing Lupin and Tonks and was trying to parallel Harry’s orphaned upbringing, but I just felt she missed a larger meaning with these two minor characters as far as repressed minorities went. Of course it’s impossible to argue with the creator, but in the span of 10 pages that the Lupins graced
Deathly Hallows, I never thought of them as parental figures fighting for their child. I thought of it as Lupin finally being able to have a semi-normal life with a family despite his lycanthropic stigma, and Teddy as result of this socially unacceptable union between two outcasts. I just felt the author was going one way with these two characters and then suddenly diverted to another storyline at the last minute.
Now while I seriously adored Arthur Weasley; he was the series surrogate father figure. He was fighting for what was right and also for his children. I just thought I would have felt more for the children and the loss of a parent. I would have also found it interesting to see how the family would have coped during wartime, and made something more of the relatively non-existent Charlie Wealsey (lol I’ll admit it, I would have liked to have seen more of him). So yeah, I thought she should have kept her decision to kill off Arthur and leave the Lupins alive. They were so close, lol.
But again it’s her book and obviously Teddy had a very much loved upbringing.
I felt, however, that the role was almost reversed between Harry and Hagrid by the end of the series. At the beginning Harry very much relied on Hagrid to help him through the wizarding world from getting school supplies to getting the photo album of his parents. By the end Harry was almost taking care of Hagrid like one would a child. He was no longer dependent on the half-giant.
But by the end of the book, Harry also didn’t
need anyone to take care of him. He had grown into his own and no longer had to have anyone hold his hand. He was his own man.
dutch_treat said:
I agree. I blamed him for a lot of deaths too when I found out what important information he had kept from too many people. Of course it was all done for the greater good, but still the fact that he was really dead and died as a victim of his own manupilating felt like a necessary redemption.
Yeah I know and it’s that gray definition of the “greater good” that bites, lol. He believed in his cause against Voldemort, understood what it meant…I just wish he had the same faith in his followers that they had in him.
Lol I’m a little curious if Moody and Dumbledore ever met up in the afterlife, and the truth came out about the rescue mission. I can’t see Mister Constant Vigilance being exactly happy to have gotten AKed in the face thanks to Dumbledore leaving out some important info.
Or Mrs. Weasley. She was sending the majority of her family in there, and we read how she flipped out at Bellatrix in the end. :lol:
