Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Character Deaths

I've been thinking a little about the characters killed off in the Harry Potter series. Other than the outrage I feel about some of them, I can only think of one or two of the deaths that actually had any impact or import to me.

The top two are Cedric and Dobby, with Dumbledore coming in a distant third. It's possible Moody is in there somewhere. Other than that though, I didn't gain (or lose) anything from the deaths. That is part of the reason most of the deaths bother me so much. It seems like nothing was made of them. Even their pointlessness was ignored. What's the point of killing someone off (expecially "major" characters) if you aren't really going to do anything with it?!

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