Damn you, Darren Shan!

[ericadawn16]

That was a rotten, awful, no good...

Ughh.

I should have expected it, but dammit...why do all my favorite characters have to die? I feel like it's July 2007 and JK just killed off Severus.

You better not kill off Harkat, too!

(very tempted to put book in freezer.)

Stupid Steve...

EDIT: 8:09 PM (whines in a two year old voice) But why????
No, you didn't kill Harkat but you took one of the other awesome characters! You are planning on leaving us someone alive at the end, right?
Ughh

Comments

[elanor12.livejournal.com]

Oh I know the feeling of favorite characters always being killed off (or sometime they became the bad ones in the story. I hate when it happens. )

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

Although if they turn evil, at least I can make up reasons for why they're acting that way.

Accepting a favorite character's death is much harder...and usually guarantees that I'll be writing a fanfic about it at some point.

[elanor12.livejournal.com]

True, and isn't it fun trying to defend said character to other people? : "Yeah they're doing some bad thing, but think about what happens when..." *lol*
But if they turn evil, I usually know that at some point in the story they're gonna be killed/stopped and be put away for x time. (cause I wasn't lucky to have a favorite character that could redeemed -is that a word?- themself at the end.

It not very good when you're rooting for the one who will without a doubt lose at the end. *lol*

Accepting favorite character's death is very hard. Especially when the death is pointless (I'm not naming anyone here...) or totally overlooked (when they kind of just say. "Oh, he's dead...NEXT!") *is not thinking about Lupin, noooo, not thinking about Lupin...or the twin (Fred?) who died*

Oh well, at least, when they became evil, they're still there.

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

Geez, there was this whole ten page span in DH where I felt like I had lost everyone because it was like: Fred dead, Remus dead, Tonks dead, Colin Creevy dead, Severus dead...by that point, I did put that sucker in the freezer!

Especially after killing off Dobby earlier in the book!!!

[elanor12.livejournal.com]

And Hedwig! At the very beginning of the book.
At least it was feeling like a real war (sorry, I'm in the middle of reading a soldier's letter from WW1), and I kind of understand why JKR did all that killing like that, 'cause it was a war, and they don't have time to grieve, think about it too much or anything...

but it WAS a sucker punch in the stomach. It made me feel bitter for a few days. I just wish there had been something later in the book about them, a grieving of some sort. (I can't remember if they honoured them before the epilogue). I'm waiting to see how they'll do that one in the movies.