I was upset at Sirius, and especially as he had had so much unhappiness in his life, but I understood ;why' he was killed in terms of JKR's over-riding story arc. The parental figures andmentors have to die, and the Hero has to go on alone. Fine - I can live with that.
But I am afraid that her 'explanation' of the deaths of Remus and Tonks didn't stand up for me at all. I fear it was another case of Jo using a truckload of anvils to make a point, where a subtle pebble or two (a.k.a. relying on your readers' intelligence and perceptions) would have been so much better. We didn't NEED to be hammered with a join-the-numbered-dots picture about the tragedy of kids left without parents, and vice versa, in wartime - even young children can understand the wartime losses and tragedies from the body count of DH and previous books.
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But I am afraid that her 'explanation' of the deaths of Remus and Tonks didn't stand up for me at all. I fear it was another case of Jo using a truckload of anvils to make a point, where a subtle pebble or two (a.k.a. relying on your readers' intelligence and perceptions) would have been so much better. We didn't NEED to be hammered with a join-the-numbered-dots picture about the tragedy of kids left without parents, and vice versa, in wartime - even young children can understand the wartime losses and tragedies from the body count of DH and previous books.