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hildigunnur) wrote2005-06-06 02:10 am
hildigunnur) wrote2005-06-06 02:10 am
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On character deaths
I've been wanting to write down some predictions for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince but there's one problem I've encountered. As we come closer to the end, there are things that need to be resolved and some of them will start to come to pass in HBP. It can prove problematic trying to figure out what they are.
So I figured if I did the predictions and theorizing in parts, then I might have chance to get something out there.
I've been thinking a bit about character deaths lately. Maybe I have a rather dark perception of what the Second War with Voldemort will entail but I think the death count is going up. I actually did think after GoF that the death count would steadily rise because we have at least four deaths in GoF (Frank Bryce, Bertha Jorkins, Mr Crouch and Cedric) but then just Broderick Bode and Sirius in OotP. I think the biggest "name" so to speak that is likely to go before the finale of the books, will be Dumbledore. Well, only the trio (and perhaps Voldemort) are bigger "names" in the books than Dumbledore so it does leave a lot of characters who are in danger of losing their lives.
When you look at the younger generation of the characters, I don't think that there are many of them who will die. (Just wipe out all hope for the Wizarding World then). But there are some characters who are vulnerable than others.
And one of them is Luna.
I know she's a new character so it might appear at first glance that she was introduced too late to be an "effective" death if you know what I mean. But see Cedric. There are couple of lines about him in PoA but then in GoF he dies. Sirius was really with us for only three books. Luna was introduced by proxy in GoF (the Lovegoods who didn't get tickets to the World Cup were probably her and her father) and she even got a chapter named after her in OotP.
What makes her vulnerable in my mind, is the fact she really seems to be connected with death. She sees the Thestrals and is the first one to confirm with Harry that he's not hallucinating. When they look at the veil in the Ministry of Magic after Sirius falls through it, Luna claims to hear people talking behind it. Then when she and Harry have a talk about Sirius, she talks about how she will see her dead mother again. For a fourteen year old witch who should have the long life of witch ahead of her, her tone does feel like she expects to see her mother sooner than later.
Luna is a very melancholic and nostalgic character. Kind of like she's being written with the certainty of her untimely death and even her own awareness of it.
If my hunch is right, I would suspect that we won't see her demise until book Seven.
Now I have made myself really sad because I very much like Luna.
So I figured if I did the predictions and theorizing in parts, then I might have chance to get something out there.
I've been thinking a bit about character deaths lately. Maybe I have a rather dark perception of what the Second War with Voldemort will entail but I think the death count is going up. I actually did think after GoF that the death count would steadily rise because we have at least four deaths in GoF (Frank Bryce, Bertha Jorkins, Mr Crouch and Cedric) but then just Broderick Bode and Sirius in OotP. I think the biggest "name" so to speak that is likely to go before the finale of the books, will be Dumbledore. Well, only the trio (and perhaps Voldemort) are bigger "names" in the books than Dumbledore so it does leave a lot of characters who are in danger of losing their lives.
When you look at the younger generation of the characters, I don't think that there are many of them who will die. (Just wipe out all hope for the Wizarding World then). But there are some characters who are vulnerable than others.
And one of them is Luna.
I know she's a new character so it might appear at first glance that she was introduced too late to be an "effective" death if you know what I mean. But see Cedric. There are couple of lines about him in PoA but then in GoF he dies. Sirius was really with us for only three books. Luna was introduced by proxy in GoF (the Lovegoods who didn't get tickets to the World Cup were probably her and her father) and she even got a chapter named after her in OotP.
What makes her vulnerable in my mind, is the fact she really seems to be connected with death. She sees the Thestrals and is the first one to confirm with Harry that he's not hallucinating. When they look at the veil in the Ministry of Magic after Sirius falls through it, Luna claims to hear people talking behind it. Then when she and Harry have a talk about Sirius, she talks about how she will see her dead mother again. For a fourteen year old witch who should have the long life of witch ahead of her, her tone does feel like she expects to see her mother sooner than later.
Luna is a very melancholic and nostalgic character. Kind of like she's being written with the certainty of her untimely death and even her own awareness of it.
If my hunch is right, I would suspect that we won't see her demise until book Seven.
Now I have made myself really sad because I very much like Luna.