Most unconscionable death in Harry Potter (duh-spoilers)

[XemaSab]

Which death did you think was the WORST?

Which death hit you the HARDEST?

Which death will you NEVER forgive Rowling for?

:shrug:

[Matilda]

1. Hedwig - such a shock coming so early in the book.

And I don't like animals dying because of human folly.

Also Dobby - didn't see that one coming.

I cried for Snape and for Harry, but they were both half-expected - although "Look - at - me"
really got to me.

[Sabriel]

2. Come on, a TWIN!??

Why him? Why not Pansy Parkinson?

[XemaSab]

3. Come on now...

...turn the sig line back on. :D

[MountainLaurel]

4. Statistically speaking, one of the Weasleys had to go

And it being one of the twins made it that more poignant: they twins were funloving and freespirited, and two halves of a whole. It wouldn't be war if just the annoying and unlikeable folks got killed.

[Matilda]

5. And Snape had to go too.

It was his redemption.

But I felt so sad that when he died all that people knew was that he was a former Death Eater who
had killed Dumbledore.

[Branjor]

6. I agree with Matilda

re Hedwig and Dobby. But they were ALL sad.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

7. Fred...

Those twins are my favorite characters in those books. And then she goes and offs one of them?! What the hell?! George will never be the same without his other half. It ripped me apart.
Duckie

[intheflow]

8. Sirius.

Didn't Harry deserve at least one friend of his father's to survive? Didn't Siruis deserve a measure of happiness, freedom, and public redemption after being wrongly imprisoned and tortured by dementors in Azkaban all those years? :cry:

[CBHagman]

9. That's rather how I felt about Lupin's death.

Did you notice that no one specifically identified as part of Harry's parents' circle of friends and former friends survived? Sirius, Peter, Remus, Severus -- all gone. Rowling also did away with many of Harry's protectors, which is why I was surprised that Hagrid survived. I even spared a thought for Petunia Dursley.

I hated the fact that Harry and Sirius never got much time together and that they left a lot unsaid and undone.

That said, it particularly bothered me that Rowling decided Lupin and Tonks had to be sacrificed. Lupin was easily the most sensitive of James Potter's friends, and of course he suffered virtually his whole life. When he finally has the unconditional love of wife and son, something to live for, it comes to an end.

To credit Rowling, though, she did put Lupin's sacrifice in context, and of course in the epilogue we find out that his son grows up surrounded by love.

[LibertyLover]

10. Can I just vote for all of the above?

They were all hard. Hedwig because she was Harry's loyal friend; Lupin and Tonks because they just had a child; Fred because, well, he's Fred; and Sirius, just when Harry found a surrogate parent who cared about him for himself.

[Broken_Hero]

11. Fred....nt

[MrCoffee]

12. Kill the Spare

I vote for Cedric because it was such a complete and total shock to me. I was completely blindsided, and it was unquestionably the turning point in the tone of the series.

[Matilda]

13. That was the point at which the series ceased being children's books.

It was the best for me up to that point because it did move into another dimension with Cedric's
death, which was truly a shock.