The meaning of all the deaths in HP:
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James and Lily:
To establish the story line as well as to show orphans of war.
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Cedric Diggory:
To show Voldemort's mercilessness.
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Sirius Black:
To show Harry's lack of guidance/parental figures.
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Albus Dumbledore:
To show the death of a great leader can't stop a war.
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Hedwig:
To show the end of Harry's childhood.
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Mad Eye:
To show the death of a soldier.
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Dobby:
To show even the smallest of creatures can die a Hero's death.
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Fred Weasley:
To show that some deaths you just can't get over. And that's okay.
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Tonks and Remus Lupin:
To reestablish orphans of war.
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Colin Creevey:
To show that the good die young, even when they aren't supposed to.
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Severus Snape:
To show that you can always change your ways. Always.
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Meaning of this post:
To make anyone who reads it want to crawl in a hole and drown in their tears.
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• What childhood? Harry never had a childhood.
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• Harry was not an orphan of war but rather a survivor of betrayal, it was Neville that effectively is the orphan and in the cruellest of ways!
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• There is never getting over some deaths and that is NOT OK!
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• Ask any soldier who has seen battle and they will tell you that there is no such thing as a 'hero's' death.
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• Snape was the person he was because of unreciprocated love, which is what dictated the person he was and why he changed.
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• Tonks and Remus were to demonstrate that society will never accept certain unions.
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• And as for Albus Dumbledore, it was to show that withholding truths, manipulating people and playing god with others’ lives will always cost you!
