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I didn't think I'd be phazed by any deaths. One of the biggest reason's I love Harry Potter is because we genuinely can't tell who will live or who will die. And I love it when characters die well. In large numbers. But then I hit Hedwig's death and I was screaming at the book. ( I was in a waterfront park, I wonder what the kayakers just offshore thought.) While I don't like the cutesy, telepathic, may-as-well-be-human animal buddies fantasy characters often get saddled with, I kept waiting for something to happen with Hedwig, for her to do something, or at least for Harry to have some kind of relationship her beyond, "sorry, we're miserable on Privet Drive and I can't let you out of your cage." I can see why she died -- he'd have to go apparating around the backwoods with her. Actually, no, screw that, all the other characters got to do something, but all Hedwig gets is "sniff, sniff, she was my only link to the magical world when I was stuck with the Dursley's." We didn't even get to see that relationship in the other books! Poor window trappings. Dude. If they had her in the woods, she totally could have gotten them some voles to go with their mushrooms.

okay, I'm better now. Thanks for the thread. My roommate is all, RAR! I hate Harry Potter! I couldn't even get into book 5! ... but I love Snape... And I might read books 5,6,7 so don't spoil them for me.

And let me just say that when I hit the Jesus bit, and realized this was the closest anyone has come to actually paralleling Jesus (Harry literally died so that Voldmort couldn't hurt everyone else!) I was both horrified and exhilarated.

In either an argument over exact definition of a label (e.g. "Pagan") or where things have degraded into semantics:

"Dictionary.com says [copy and paste defintion]"

And then the argument goes on exactly as before because nobody actually cares.

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