Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
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Who would you save that died in Harry Potter?
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the dark lord, bellatrix, and umbridge.... hahah only joking, Doby, Fred, and Hedwig
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Leah wrote: "Overall, I would like to have saved Cedric Diggory. He was a kid, and he was the best of Hogwarts. He had so much room to grow and so many dreams that went forever unrealized. Remus/Tonks. At leas..."
oh my gosh! I didnt even think of Cedric, but he would be one to save too
Star wrote: "Noone. lol I wouldnt save any of the characters. If i did it would change the story and I think that the people who died added so much to the series that if any of them were saved it would take awa..."As horrible as it sounds, i totally agree. Can we choose a few more characters to kill off instead?
I would save Snape, Fred, and Dobby....
Dumbledore was meant 2 die!!!! Harry may not have been able 2 survive if he didn't die.
Katie wrote: "Fred, Remus, and Tonks. I would keep Fred alive for Molly, George, and all the Weasleys. Also, how will George run Weasley's Wizarding Weazes without his partner?? :( I would save Remus and Tonks ..."The only person I would pick to save would be FRED.
I am only picking one for mulitple reasons. 1.) Fred's death was one of the ones that i cried the most over. Just imagining that George has to live out the rest of his life feeling like his other half or a piece of him is missing breaks my heart. George's kids will never know their cool uncle fred. i mean imagine all the pranks that were missed out on?! 2.) Don't get me wrong Remus Tonks dying broke my heart as well but there is something poetic about Harry being able to be there for their son and to help him through the struggle of growing up without his unborn parents. 3.) whoever said if everyone lived it would be a Disney movie was right. 4.) Sirius (I had a really hard time with his death too and was really satisfied when Harry threw stuff around Dumbledores office) but sirius died in battle and i think we can all agree that is a way he would have been proud to go. Laughing in the face of danger and dueling deatheaters. Besides once his best friends Lily and James die he was never truly whole again, i bet he was happy he got to see his friends on the other side of the veil. 5.) Katie also points out that when Dumbledore and Surius died it forced Harry to grow up more accept the responsibility of being the chosen one. She is absolutly right. Besides if Dumbledore didn't sacrifice himself then we might never have read about Harry becoming the master of death, or the elder wand and he might never have deafeted Voldy at all! 6.) I realize that it would be a bit impractical to have ALL the weasley's live so i nominate that percy dies.. it would still be really sad and there would be a lot of regret but at the end of the day... i think we could all hang with Percy's passing.. well maybe not Penelope Clearwater but oh well.
dobby, Sirius, Dumbledore, Cedric, Lily,
Fred: I think it's just plain evil to kill a twin.Lupin/Tonks: Teddy needed both parents and neither Lupin nor Tonks would have wanted to live without the other.
Colin Creevy: he wasn't even supposed to be at Hogwarts since as a Muggle-Born he wasn't able to attend school that year. This truly was a pointless death.
Diggory: this death was important for story development, but he deserved to live.
Non-humans
Hedwig
The Firebolt
Those I wouldn't use the Resurrection Stone on:
Sirius: his time in Azkaban damaged him beyond complete healing and I also believe he would have preferred to rejoin James and Lily.
Dumbledore: he led a full life and accomplished the most important mission of his life once he set Harry on the right path.
Dobby: what a noble and touching death--he is more beloved in death even than in life.
Snape: he continued to live only to fulfill an obligation to keep Lilly's child from being killed by Voldemort. With all of his enemies dead and no Lily, I don't think he would have enjoyed such an empty future.
Let's see...Fred, Lupin, Tonks, Sirius, Snape, Dumbledore, Hedwig Dobby and Cedric!!!
Snape, he deserved better treatment from all those people, he should've had a better life and a fresh start when the war ended, i mean he suffered all throughout and was misunderstood all throughout. It was unfair that he had to die.
Fred, Lupin, Sirius, Snape, Dumbledore, Dobby, Hedwig and a few more :)
Fred. (Snape never died, c'mon, he's a Potions Master!! he ran away to finally live in peace)
Hedwig! Whyyyyyyyyyy!!!!
I've really given this a lot of thought, probably more than I should have, but I would save Cedric. I think that his death is really the saddest. He didn't get to die in battle or sacrifice himself as a hero, he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was so young and had so much potential. The speech Dumbledore gives at the end of HBP about remembering Cedric always makes me cry.
Most people are saying Lupin, Sirius, Fred, and Tonks.I would say All them and Lily, James, Snape, and in the movie Bellatrix Only because the actress made her look so good.
I would save Sirius and Snape. It would have been cool to see Harry and Snape working as a team
Sirius, Dumbledore and Dobby >Sirius because he needs a parent..
>Dumbledore because he's Dumbledore.
>Dobby because he's just too good to die
Dobby (he didn't deserve to die!)Fred and Sirius :(
Sirius, Lupin, Tonks, Dobby, and Hedwig
Sirius, Fred and Remus (but I really really want to save Snape too)
It can't be just 3!!Well, Sirius, Remus, Tonks, Dobby, Fred, Dumbledore, Lily, James, Snape, Hedwig, But NEVER CEDRIC DIGGORY (I hate him, but you might not)
(Not in any order)
I think I would bring back Sirius, Fred, Tonks/Lupin and Hedwig. Those are my five. Sorry three was soooo not enough.
To tell you the truth, I could have lived with all of the deaths that have happened in the Harry Potter series except for Fred, Remus and Tonks. These deaths completely broke my heart. I actually remember my heart stopping in shock when I was reading the book. I broke down and cried like a baby, which shocked the heck out of my mother because I never really cry, and she thought something was really wrong. Then she rolled her eyes and went back to watching TV when she realized I was crying over a Harry Potter book. Heartless woman
Jeanie wrote: "Fred: I think it's just plain evil to kill a twin.Lupin/Tonks: Teddy needed both parents and neither Lupin nor Tonks would have wanted to live without the other.
Colin Creevy: he wasn't even suppo..."
I'm replying about Colin Creevy's death being pointless. I totally agree that it was but I think the pointlessness of the death was actually the point Rowling was trying to make. She was trying to show how awful war is, how it destroys so pointlessly and spares no one, not the innocent and not the guilty. I also think that Fred's death was sort of an origin story for the hero that is Molly Weasley. Her greatest fear was losing one of her children and now she not only avenged her child, she lived through her greatest fear and is stronger for it, if heartbroken. Although, I really wish Rowling had killed Percy instead, I know the Weasleys had to lose someone, when I looked back on it, it made sense from a literary point of view. But I could have lived with Percy dying instead of Fred. Every time I think about George living the rest of his life without Fred, perhaps even losing his sense of humor, it makes my heart hurt. That is one of the reason why I play on Pottermore, I'm hoping Rowling will tell us what happens to each character in detail after the war. I already found out from playing that Remus got an Order of Merlin First Class posthumously and has helped people accept werewolves better.
Yvenande wrote: "Jeanie wrote: "Fred: I think it's just plain evil to kill a twin.Lupin/Tonks: Teddy needed both parents and neither Lupin nor Tonks would have wanted to live without the other.
Colin Creevy: he wa..."
I actually do understand Rowling's reasons for killing off people--tonks and Lupin's deaths created a sort of symmetry with the death of the parents of a small child beginning and ending the story, for example. And Fred's death supposedly made it more personal and spurred the trio to even more daring feats and a determination to figure out how to end Voldemort there and then. But, no pun intended, I thought it was overkill.
It was always her story and she had the right to do it the way she wanted, but I sometimes wonder if she comprehended the impact losing some of those characters would have on the readers who had lived with them and gotten to know them so well over the years as the books were released. Fred's loss to me was real and personal, and I was so stunned with loss by the time Harry saw the dead bodies of Lupin and Tonks I could barely take it in. Seriously, it was years before I could think about these losses without a prickling of tears behind my eyes.
Some of the deaths, like Dobby's, were devastatingly sad in the moment--I bawled like a baby at the funeral--but I had an appreciation for the storytelling at the same moment and never begrudged the deaths that added to the poignancy until we got to the bloodbath at the end. OK, maybe I begrudged losing Hedwig...
Truly, it's a testament to Rowling's gift as a writer that even to this day I feel such a strong connection to those characters. I admit her right to have killed off any of her characters she felt made her point in the story, but I claim the right to wish she hadn't.
Fred, Sirius, and Lavender Brown.I'm so tempted to say Remus and Tonks too, but I think not having parents will shape who Teddy is and teach Ginny and Harry important lessons they'll need to raise their children. I wouldn't say Dobby either because I don't think he and Kreacher would ever get along with each other.
Lily wrote: "Fred, Sirius, and Lavender Brown.I'm so tempted to say Remus and Tonks too, but I think not having parents will shape who Teddy is and teach Ginny and Harry important lessons they'll need to raise..."
Are we sure Lavender Brown died?
Fred, Sirius and Dobby
Lupin, Tonks, Fred
Jeanie wrote: "Lily wrote: "Fred, Sirius, and Lavender Brown.
I'm so tempted to say Remus and Tonks too, but I think not having parents will shape who Teddy is and teach Ginny and Harry important lessons they'll ..."
She died in the movie, but I don't think she died in the book.
I'm so tempted to say Remus and Tonks too, but I think not having parents will shape who Teddy is and teach Ginny and Harry important lessons they'll ..."
She died in the movie, but I don't think she died in the book.
Snape, Fred & Dobby.
Dobby, Fred, Sirius
Well, Lupin and Tonks really broke my heart, so definitely. And Fred of course. Fred was just... :(
Fred, Dobby, Sirius.Fred was awesome, I cried when Dobby died, and Sirius did not deserve death.
If I could pick one... Fred, definitely... But I'd also save Dobby...
AgCl wrote: "Snape, he deserved better treatment from all those people, he should've had a better life and a fresh start when the war ended, i mean he suffered all throughout and was misunderstood all throughou..."Agreed. Although, we might never have known how great Snape was if he hadn't made the ultimate sacrifice. I want to save him, but I understand why he died.
If I had to save one person, if we go by the film's confirmed death scene, I would save Lavender Brown. I personally did not like her whole "Won-Won" act, and I too found it (disgraceful) disgusting (despicable). However, she didn't deserve to be killed so unceremoniously by Fenrir Greyback, no matter how much I loathed her vs. Hermione. If we interpret that scene in the book's sense, and infer that she survived, the one person that would bring back to life is Merope Gaunt. Unless we're not allowed to change the full series with our choices, I would choose that Merope Gaunt were still alive to raise Tom Riddle, so that he would have at least one parent to raise him throughout his childhood and to support him through his magical endeavours at Hogwarts.
fred sirius tonks and remus
Miriam wrote: "I'm torn between Sirius, Remus, Tonks, Dobby, Fred, Dumbledore, Snape, James, Lily, Hedwig...You know what? I can't choose whom I'll bring back. That's cruel, there are so many awesome characters..."
I agree! Definitely Dumbledore, James, Lily, Fred, Sirius... They are all just such awesome characters!
Maria wrote: "Star wrote: "Noone. lol I wouldnt save any of the characters. If i did it would change the story and I think that the people who died added so much to the series that if any of them were saved it w..."That's true I guess I didn't think of it like that...
Fred, Remus, and Tonks!
Fred, the Lupins, and Snape. DONT JUDGE THAT I kinda liked Snape. But NOT like love.
Oh wait Dumbledore is the first person I would save
fred, remus, tonks, dobby
Fred,Lupin/Tonks and DOBBY!!!!!!!!!!
We can only choose 3?!
Sirius, Lupin/Tonks, Dobby
Sirius, Lupin/Tonks, Dobby
We can do more than 3?: )
Hedwig, Dobby, Firebolt, Sirius, Lupin, Tonks, Snape, Fred, Colin Creevy, James, and Lily, and Snape
Hedwig, Dobby, Firebolt, Sirius, Lupin, Tonks, Snape, Fred, Colin Creevy, James, and Lily, and Snape
I didn't know we could pick 3... Hm, I'll choose Fred, Dobby, and Tonks
SNAPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!dumbolre
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