Potter Question?
Anyone who's read the last book and finished it, a little help here?
I didn't read any spoilers. Except the 'Gabriel' spoilers, because, c'mon, they were posted to a known IT security site and of COURSE I'm there. And in the official 'spoilers' released, J.K. said there were two major character deaths.
. . . who the heck is she counting as a main character there? Obviously Snape was one, but . . . the other was . . . Dobby? Remus? Fred? Hedwig? Can anyone argue any one of those characters was any more major than the others? Or any of the deaths I've left out (Tonks, yaddah yaddah) were more major than the players listd above?
As an aside? I do so love Minerva. =)
It should be noted I am ignoring Riddle, who was a given, and Harry, because we're either supposed to believe that
A. Riddle's wand was not capable of performing a killing curse that actually killed anyone, given Crouch!Mad-Eye's statement "If the whole class pointed their wands and spoke the words I doubt I'd get more than a nosebleed." (which I think is disproved, I'm pretty sure he used it to kill someone, I'd have to go back and look . . .)
or
B. The portion of Riddle's soul that was attached to Harry was destroyed but protected Harry (which seems like a plothole to me, but it's early and I'm not working on much sleep here . . .) or their shared blood protected Harry but not the Riddle!soulportion, etc.
Either way, Harry didn't die. He might have been given the option to do so, but clearly he was breathing.
I didn't read any spoilers. Except the 'Gabriel' spoilers, because, c'mon, they were posted to a known IT security site and of COURSE I'm there. And in the official 'spoilers' released, J.K. said there were two major character deaths.
. . . who the heck is she counting as a main character there? Obviously Snape was one, but . . . the other was . . . Dobby? Remus? Fred? Hedwig? Can anyone argue any one of those characters was any more major than the others? Or any of the deaths I've left out (Tonks, yaddah yaddah) were more major than the players listd above?
As an aside? I do so love Minerva. =)
It should be noted I am ignoring Riddle, who was a given, and Harry, because we're either supposed to believe that
A. Riddle's wand was not capable of performing a killing curse that actually killed anyone, given Crouch!Mad-Eye's statement "If the whole class pointed their wands and spoke the words I doubt I'd get more than a nosebleed." (which I think is disproved, I'm pretty sure he used it to kill someone, I'd have to go back and look . . .)
or
B. The portion of Riddle's soul that was attached to Harry was destroyed but protected Harry (which seems like a plothole to me, but it's early and I'm not working on much sleep here . . .) or their shared blood protected Harry but not the Riddle!soulportion, etc.
Either way, Harry didn't die. He might have been given the option to do so, but clearly he was breathing.