History Headscratchers / HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallowsWizardingPrejudice

*** The fact that people express their frustration and anger over the dead of beloved characters is probably exactly what the writer intended. Creator/GeorgeRRMartin often face the same kind of backlash and I guess is the fictional equivalent of been angry at God after one of your love ones die. But truth is, that’s what makes fiction interesting, real fiction, not Twilight-like HappilyEverAfter endings design for dumb people that can stand a sad ending.

** Dress it up as some kind of literary criticism all you want, in the end these are just complaints that characters you like died. Hedwig'a death had the practical reason that it uped the emotional stakes and fear immediately, it removed the ability for Harry to communicate with the Order later in the book and was a symbolic death of Harry's youthful, schooltime adventures. Now it's not an adventure. It's a war. And people die in wars. Dobby's death completes his character arc of going from a bumbling wannabe hero who did more harm then good to a true hero willing to stand up the the very family he was terrified to defy, giving his life for a friend. And his death meant Harry's mistake and the detour to Malfoy manor had consequences. Otherwise it would have been a bit too convenient that they got out of it intact and with new allies and information, even after Herminoe's torture. Fred'a death came out of nowhere but that's kind of the point in a battle. And a ShooOutTheClown monument. Remus and Tonks dying came out of nowhere but I do like all the Marudures are dead at the series end, demonstrating both Harry'a isolation at the loss of another father figure and the end of the war that generation has been fighting for so long. The full circle of yet another orphaned child is definitely a GutPunch for Harry. Besides that sorry was finished when Remus accepted his role as a father and husband. That he and his wife died is not breaking their character development. It's a classic trajic turn because the character development was just completed. You may not like it, and that's fine. But just have the courage to admit it without attacking the author. If she is so bad, why the hell do you care so much to read it and post about it?

*** Actually it is bad writing because it uses death as shock value to try and seem mature, people know that many die in war but killing off half the cast after they have used up their character arcs is a terrible way to use them, death in fiction has to affect the still living characters to have impact, Tolkien was much better at writing about the horror and the glory of war and he only killed off one of his main characters but JK seems to think that throwing death after death will have the same emotional impact as when she first killed off a beloved character. It's not that we cant FATHOM it it with our small mortal brains, its that she really didnt handle it well but fans tend to ignore that her books are far, far from perfect.

*** The fact that people express their frustration and anger over the dead of beloved characters is probably exactly what the writer intended. GeorgeRRMartin often face the same kind of backlash and I guess is the fictional equivalent of been angry at God after one of your love ones die. But truth is, that’s what makes fiction interesting, real fiction, not Twilight-like HappilyEverAfter endings design for dumb people that can stand a sad ending.

* The problem isn't with Creator/JKRowling's writing, it's with those readers who have a disconnect with understanding the difference between uncrafted, ruled by chance reality and crafted, deliberate fiction made to mimic the chaos of reality. Bottom Line: '''It's a war, ''AnyoneCanDie'' and JK wanted to show this. it's not bad storytelling just because you can't fathom it.'''
** Actually it is bad writing because it uses death as shock value to try and seem mature, people know that many die in war but killing off half the cast after they have used up their character arcs is a terrible way to use them, death in fiction has to affect the still living characters to have impact, Tolkien was much better at writing about the horror and the glory of war and he only killed off one of his main characters but JK seems to think that throwing death after death will have the same emotional impact as when she first killed off a beloved character. It's not that we cant FATHOM it it with our small mortal brains, its that she really didnt handle it well but fans tend to ignore that her books are far, far from perfect.
** Actually there is a problem, granted wars are chaotic situations where AnyoneCanDie, that doesn't mean that a writer writing such a situation in a fictional series is absolved from the duty to give it some order, it is still very much up to the writer to find that bridge between order and chaos while still making their story believable. RK kinda failed in this aspect.
** My main problem with that part was actually how nobody else gets a reference. Oh no, Remus and Tonks and Fred died... and then those other 50 people who I might or might not know, but I wouldn't know because Harry doesn't have the guts to actually look who else died to buy him time.

****** WaitWhat? Having just reread the epilogue, I see nothing that would indicate Albus will become a dark wizard. In fact, he seems to be acting just like Harry did at his age.