I could do it - actually I can borrow a HC copy from work for free. I'm just not sure I want to read the books again. All the characters I like (except for Neville) die. T__T
When Sirius died, it was like a real person had died. I went through the whole grieving process. I've never had a character death hit me that hard before. I was in denial until the last sentence of the last book.
I'm lucky that by the time characters I were really invested in died (Lupin, Tonks, Snape) either a.) the character rape had made their actual deaths an anti-climax or b.) I was consoled by the epic romantic backstory I never ever thought would be canon.
Yeah. Even now I can remember my exact reaction when it happened Did he just- He didn't- no way. NO NO NO NO NO NO Not him- this can't be happening... ad infinitum. It's a moment frozen in time in my mind not unlike the Challenger explosion when I was in fourth grade weirdly enough.
I'm glad I don't have to use her very often, but yeah.
I'm thinking about what I said earlier, and I also find it kind of strange that it hit me so hard.
I'm not good with things that are unexpected or surprises - I read a lot of the same types of things and have the tropes down, and like to have little hints and things thrown at me - and maybe there were, and I didn't pick up on them. I think once he was gone, I realized anyone and everyone was fair game for her to kill off in the story, so the next two books didn't bother me at all, except in the arbitrary way she chose who made it. Like she picked names out of a hat (I guess there are worse ways to plot).
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I'm lucky that by the time characters I were really invested in died (Lupin, Tonks, Snape) either a.) the character rape had made their actual deaths an anti-climax or b.) I was consoled by the epic romantic backstory I never ever thought would be canon.
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I'm glad I don't have to use her very often, but yeah.
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Honestly, I found the death scene so anti-climatic that I read past his death and then flipped back because I wasn't sure if he'd died or not.
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I'm not good with things that are unexpected or surprises - I read a lot of the same types of things and have the tropes down, and like to have little hints and things thrown at me - and maybe there were, and I didn't pick up on them. I think once he was gone, I realized anyone and everyone was fair game for her to kill off in the story, so the next two books didn't bother me at all, except in the arbitrary way she chose who made it. Like she picked names out of a hat (I guess there are worse ways to plot).