Harry Potter- round 6-who's ready?

[BarTopDancer]

Rowling had stated that once someone died they were dead, as to not confuse kids.

I was more affected by Siruis' death then Dumbledore's. I'm not sure why because in the books I was bawling through both. I think I was still so far removed from Potterland and stuck somewhere between LOTR, StarWars and HP that it didn't bother me.

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

Rowling had stated that once someone died they were dead, as to not confuse kids.

Yes, she said that in interviews ... but that's not how she wrote it in her novels.

Serious fell through that mysterious veil portal, he was not Avra Kedavera death-cursed. There was a lot more about the veil portal in the book, so it seemed like a one-way trip, but it was left decidedly unclear. And since he fell through it without being killed first (like in the movie), all the kidlets were left unsure whether he was dead .... unless they also read every word J.K. says in interviews.


With Dumbledore, a lot more was made of the mysterious phoenix that appears at his funeral. His death was a lot more definiate, but that rise-from-the-ashes portent was not exactly subtle in the book. I didn't know till Book 7 whether he was going to be revived all Gandalf-like or not.



Speaking of which, yeah, some of the LotR touches in the current movie were not, to my memory, in the book - - specifically the ring touching that was totally Peter Jackson (i.e., that sort of thing was not in Tolkien either).