In the end I think you have to trust an author to get it right. manfalling writes (above) about the Never-Ending Story and how almost everyone in that story winds up dead. Victory is won in the end, but at a terrible cost.
I think children can take it.
Context is all. If JKR kills off her characters frivolously or because she's gotten bored with them, then it will feel wrong. But if they die nobly, heroically, fittingly, then along with the sadness there will be a kind of triumph. Good people do die- and sometimes it's the manner of their dying that confirms their virtue.
I remember hating it when Porthos got killed at the end of the Man In The Iron Mask. But it was a good death and worthy of him and better that he should go out like that than linger on ingloriously and die of old age.
But we mustn't anticipate. We don't know JKR's intentions. Maybe it won't be as bad as we've been led to believe.
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Date: 2006-08-11 05:29 pm (UTC)In the end I think you have to trust an author to get it right.
I think children can take it.
Context is all. If JKR kills off her characters frivolously or because she's gotten bored with them, then it will feel wrong. But if they die nobly, heroically, fittingly, then along with the sadness there will be a kind of triumph. Good people do die- and sometimes it's the manner of their dying that confirms their virtue.
I remember hating it when Porthos got killed at the end of the Man In The Iron Mask. But it was a good death and worthy of him and better that he should go out like that than linger on ingloriously and die of old age.
But we mustn't anticipate. We don't know JKR's intentions. Maybe it won't be as bad as we've been led to believe.