 Re: Unforgivable?
It's a contradiction, in that sense- because in the "realism" of war time, people don't die and come back because of some complicated soul connection. In the "realism" of war time, enemies are not defeated because of complex and slightly questionable weapon ownership at the climax of battle. In the "realism" of wartime, one does not touch an object of ultimate evil and then suddenly remember at exactly the right moment that one has done so. In the "realism" of wartime, a mother's love, unfortunately, is not enough to give her the skills to take down a seasoned killer.
JKR did not write the realism of wartime. She made a botched and heartless attempt to do so by killing off, in her viewpoint, expendable characters with a few added sentences.
Because, after all, realism and fairytales are two very different things- and you cannot have both in the same ending. |