I know the last one is something JKR answered on her website because so many people asked her about it. It's not just seeing death that triggers it but the entire grieving process after witnessing someone dying and he'd been too shell-shocked to really absorb it. It's also why Harry didn't see them all along despite his mother (and possibly dad) being killed in front of him, he was too young to process what it meant.
Interesting- I never could keep track of the things she addressed there and what she didn't. That one reeeeally feels like the explanation you come up with when you're trying to cover your tracks. OH, JKR, I heart you, but sometimes I wish you could just say, LOLZ, IKR? OOPS!
I'm still annoyed by her response to the criticisms of the Lupin/Toniks romance. "Oh, it was going to more obvious but I wanted it to be a surprise! And then I had to kill them both off after I decided not to kill Arthur Weasley!"
Ughhh, yeah, I remember that one. Like, I get that showing us those characters' stories was never her priority- she was telling Harry's journey and they were side players- but AGAIN, she did them (and her readers) a big disservice by treating them so cavalierly. Yes, they're her characters to do with as she pleases, but that doesn't forgive LAZY WRITING.
But that is why we have FANDOM. Just think of all the poor fans out there still in the dark about all the amazing fic out there that FIXES THESE GRAVE WRONGS.
*shrugs*
I don't entirely buy it.
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Ha ha ha. No.
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