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green_kiwigirl

Book 7

Aug 03, 2006 15:25

None of this is at all set in stone and I'm not sure of it, but still, cut for spoilers just in case. I dunno. Anyway, It's about who dies in Harry Potter and the ???????.

( Another One Bites the Dust )

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ragdoll August 3 2006, 19:47:28 UTC

I don't see her killing off the Trio. Despite all her threats, they have to live. It's still a children's series and there's been traumatic deaths a plenty. So having the hero and his 2 best friends triumph, well, it makes sense.

I think Ginny's safe too.

I don't know in what condition any of them will be i.e. if they'll be unscathed, but they'll be alive and well.

I suspect Snape is going to die redeeming himself and proving he was a good guy after all. I have no idea who else she's going to off. I'm praying the Weasleys are immune (other than Percy) but who knows. She's done so little with Charlie that I won't be shocked if he suddenly turns up dead before the wedding or something. (Of course, if the bride winds up dead before the wedding, I would be very happy. ;))

green_kiwigirl August 3 2006, 23:40:27 UTC

I agree. I think the trio and Ginny will live. But they might be scathed. It's odd, everyone seems to be assuming the characters will die or they won't- it's very black and white. You never know, Ron might... lose an eye, Hermione could never walk again, Harry could lose a finger when it's bitten off by a creeping ring-seeking... oh, wait, wrong fandom. :D

I dunno if all the Weasleys will make it, but I think Bill will be okay. Something about the fact that he's already gone through a major life changing injury makes me think he's okay. I wouldn't be terribly surprised if Charlie got it- I think I'd actually be less sad if he died than if Percy did. I guess it has to do with that we don't really know Charlie.

Fleur dying... ha, I bet you'd like that. Maybe Tonks could fill in at the wedding, eh? ;p

ragdoll August 3 2006, 23:55:21 UTC

See, that's my feeling. That they may (and probably will) sustain some sort of permanent injuries but they'll live. I can't see her letting Harry live but dealing with the death of his girlfriend as the end of a kid's book. And Ron and Hermione would be scarred without one another. So...yeah. Definitely. I'm wondering if Harry's going to lose his ability to do magic or something. We'll see ( ... )

green_kiwigirl August 4 2006, 02:20:16 UTC

I agree about the strong woman thing. Sometimes I think that Jo chooses to make her "strong girls" (i.e. Hermione, Ginny) seem stronger by surrounding them with idiot girls. Honestly, most of the more minor girls that actually feature quite a lot in the books are very silly: Romilda Vane, Parvati, Lavender, Padma, Pansy. The Hufflepuff girls seem like quite good examples of nice, normal, non-idiot girls, but they don't get much attention. I mean... Hermione would not be any less of a strong character if she were surrounded by normal girls, not airheads.

Fleur... meh. I don't really hate her, she has her good moments, but she seems to require a life-or-death situation to bring out any depth in her. Her best moments have been when she thought Gabrielle was dying, and when she was afraid Bill was dying/when he was hurt. In normal, everyday stuff, she's just... I dunno. Snobby, a sex symbol, and, yes, a French joke.

ragdoll August 4 2006, 02:51:36 UTC

I agree about the strong woman thing. Sometimes I think that Jo chooses to make her "strong girls" (i.e. Hermione, Ginny) seem stronger by surrounding them with idiot girls. Honestly, most of the more minor girls that actually feature quite a lot in the books are very silly: Romilda Vane, Parvati, Lavender, Padma, Pansy. The Hufflepuff girls seem like quite good examples of nice, normal, non-idiot girls, but they don't get much attention. I mean... Hermione would not be any less of a strong character if she were surrounded by normal girls, not airheads.Exactly on all of them. Lavender really bothers me because they didn't seem that ditzy prior to this and then in HBP, all of a sudden she's uber-airhead. She could've still been Ron's girlfriend without being completely stupid ( ... )

green_kiwigirl August 4 2006, 03:32:06 UTC

Yeah, Lavender is sort of the perfect example of how... one dimensional the side HP girls tend to be. It felt like a fanon cliche- the possesive girlfriend from hell! I'd feel bad for her, because Ron did not treat her right at all, but there's no point to it really. She's such a stereotype, so flat, you can't really feel sorry for her because she's not in any way a person ( ... )

ragdoll August 4 2006, 04:32:09 UTC

The one dimensional thing does drive me nuts. I've been ranting about how we still don't know what size/shape/colour most of the girls are either -- what does Lavender look like? Katie Bell? Alicia Spinnet? It's nuts. Harry's friends with them for 6 years and yet there's no description at all. *sigh* And I do feel sorry for Lavender despite it all -- I wrote a Ron/Lav fic for an exchange where I tried to give her a little dignity back ( ... )

green_kiwigirl August 4 2006, 14:27:51 UTC

ragdoll August 4 2006, 17:08:55 UTC

It would make life easier if Jo would describe some of the girls- honestly, I'm sick of hearing the debate about whether Lavender is blonde or black. People are getting offended for no reason - I've seen some "What, you don't want her to be black?" comments, or "That's stereotyping blondes!"Personally, I think that Jo's managed to tell us when someone is black (Dean, Blaise, Angelina) so I don't see Lavender as black, even if they made her that way in one of the films. She reeks of sort of white middle-class suburban princess to me, but what do I know? Plus doesn't that perpetuate a stereotype about what Weasleys Want (other than Bill, obviously) since: Ginny/Dean, Fred/Angelina, Ron/black!Lavender ( ... )

green_kiwigirl August 4 2006, 18:11:08 UTC

Yeah, I think Jo points out her colored/minority/insert-politically-correct-word-here students, to make sure people know Hogwarts has a non-white population. And I think it's kind of confirmed Lavender is white, because when she and Ron were snogging after the Quidditch match, you couldn't tell whose hands were whose. But still, the debate rages on. I don't know why I always pictured her with short curly blonde hair, but I have. And that doesn't contribute to the blonde stereotype, because this is how I pictured her before HBP, and she wasn't a ditz then.

LOL, What Weasleys Want... This is totally off topic, but I actually liked Dean/Ginny. Well, we didn't see much of it in HBP but when it was brought up in OotP, it tickled my fancy for some reason. Sadly, it was not meant to be ( ... )

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