Harry Potter, Deathly Hallows (spoilers allowed)

Eragon is like a mix between Star Wars and Tolkein. I'm surprised George Lucas hasn't threatened to sue.

By the way, according to mugglenet.com (Yes, I'm a nerd. Shut up), the character who got the reprieve from death was Arthur Weasley. I'm guessing the ones who died instead were Lupin and Tonks.

 

Yeah, JKR said Arthur was going to die a couple of books ago, but she couldn't bring herself to do it.

 

I assume she originally had him dying from the snake bite.
I still wish she had killed at least one of the MAJOR characters in the final book (Harry, Ron, Hermione, even Hagrid). It just seems unreasonable that they all survived.

 

Also, to be fair, it's not like everyone isn't influenced by something.

Tolkein, for example, was heavily influenced by Norse mythology, Beowulf and the Nibelungenlied.

 

i was ok with the amount of people dying, but there could have been more, like maybe one of the big DA people or hagrid. someone that really would have wrenched at people's emotions outside of a house-elf.

 

I was far more upset at her killing off Dobby than I was about Fred, Tonks and Lupin. As for killing off Hagrid, he's half-giant, and in JKR's world, giants are damn near indestructible!

 

So how did that work, anyway? Hagrid's pops mating with a giantess?

 

Standard missonary position, I suspect.

 

Seems the least dangerous, anyway.

 

Could have involved a ladder, perhaps.

 

You think Rowling gave some thought to this and went -- a giant father simply wouldn't work with a human mother? He'd split her in two.

 

Did anyone else find it weird to find out tat Harry's parents were only 21 years old? Born in 1960, died in 1981. I always thought of them as worldly, accomplished people, but at 21 they didn't have much time to do anything.