She flinched, is all...

[emmessann]

Um, hi.  (waves sheepishly to f-list who are mostly not Potter-people.)  I haven't been able to get past one aspect of Deathly Hallows, and now that JKR has spoken publicly on it I just had to put this out there...

So JKR has confirmed, as most everyone guessed, that Remus (and presumably Tonks) were the unplanned deaths of DH.  What I've seen no-

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[imagines]

By "rushed" I more mean that from the first Remus appeared to be building towards a certain type of role/end game in the series

Oh, okay. I see what you mean. I was hoping for a big Remus & Fenrir showdown and was disappointed it wasn't there. (And I just realised that his werewolves-infiltration thing wasn't even mentioned, was it...?)

Still, I think it kinda fits in with the rest of Remus's presence in the books. When he's not around, he doesn't stay in touch. When he is, he's usually preoccupied. To me, he's a (lovable, don't get me wrong-- I adore him) hanger-on who doesn't try very hard to make his problems known. He didn't like talking about werewolves, or being one. Or maybe the possible werewolf story was just not close enough to the rest of the plot, though it would have been really cool to see.

As for house unity-- I don't know, I saw it kinda like "people are going to segregate themselves no matter what you do," rather than something she forgot or left ou. Because who's going to take a singing hat seriously, even if the hat is right? (At least Draco took a couple of tiny steps toward the good side, even if he's still a good ten feet from the line at least. :p )