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I miss Fred (T_T)
I can see why she would but I'm kinda glad she didn't...though he was an ass in goblet of fire! *throws a radish at ron's head* It's funny how she regrets putting him with Hermione tho....I wonder who they would have ended up with instead
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Very cute picture of Ron! I'm glad that she didn't have him die, but I still haven't forgiven her for killing off Fred.
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i agree! i can't stand seeing the twins apart!
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ron rules he was the best harry pooer long live weasley
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long live the weasley king!
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Sorry to all you Ron-lovers out there, but Ron annoyed me SO much! I mean, I can't imagine Harry Potter without Ron, but if he died...Not sure I would bawl my eyes out like some people.
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he annoyed me in some parts but i would definatly cry if ron died he was AWESOME!
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If she had, Ron, she'd knew there'd be a mob of Muggles outside her house wanting justice.
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And for what? Because she was in a bad mood! Well, I'm glad that passed without any incidence. What would have happened? We all would have been very sad.
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i know! she did have a very tough life though
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True....but I still think taking out one of your characters is a bit much....
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yeah especially ron
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No Weasley jumper for Jo!
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i think it was in a interview
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Poor Ronniekins! I think it would have been a very hard deal for her, too, if she had killed him off, which probably played into her deciding not to do it. However, I think she canned the idea rather early on in the series.
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yeah probably... i bet she would have had a lot of people very angry at her if she did it
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I personally hate that she even mention it.
Something are better left unsaid
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i suppose... but at least we know that she made the right choice to not kill him
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well of course i'm glad she didn't do it.
but the fact she not only considered it, And even mentioned it, it feeds the bad parts of fandom in their hate, if you know what and Who i mean.
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I kind of like that she told us, actually; it gave us some nice insight into her as a writer.
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you'll have to explain what you mean by "nice insight" since the definition seems completely different between you and me.
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Alright. Buckle down, because this is gonna be a long one.
A lot of people in the writing community (other authors and even a few reviewers and fans within the community) were sore over the fact that she didn't kill off one of the trio. For whatever reason, there's this stigma that some people have that for an author to truly be good, they have to be willing to kill off major characters.
Let's look at the deaths in Deathly Hallows: the mainest-main character was probably Snape, who was indeed pretty important. Voldie is obviously necessary to the story. Then we go down to...would you consider Fred or Lupin more important? Well, those two anyhow (neither of them is really that major of a character, to be honest), followed by Tonks and Dobby and Mad-Eye and Hedwig and Colin Creevey. Of course, there are also the Death Eaters, but eh.
So in the final book, JKR really only killed off two characters whose existences had a major impact on the storyline. If Lupin had died in Book Three, or George had never had a twin, the main story wouldn't have been so different. It would require some tweaking around the Marauder's story, but not a whole lot. The others barely impacted the grand scheme even a little bit.
But Ron, on the other hand, would have been a huge HUGE death to Harry, through whose eyes we watch the story. If he had died during that final battle, he probably would have been there with Harry. We would have seen him die; Harry would have been much more emotionally incapacitated than he was over Fred or Lupin, and like he did with Sirius, he would have probably flung himself headlong into battle and done something stupid, which could potentially have changed the entire ending.
The fact that JKR even considered killing him off makes my view of her as an author change, not dramatically but still. She would have been changing the way the entire story ended, the way everything from his death on played out. She knew that, had to have known it, and that's a big part of the reason why she didn't do it. It wasn't just that she was afraid of killing him off, though I bet she was attached enough that it would have been difficult; JKR just didn't want to change the ending of her saga so dramatically, and she knew doing something like that would inherently make a dramatic change.
I think the whole stigma about the death of main characters being the earmark of a great writer is a pack of bologna. However, I love knowing just how intently she thought about each and every action she took would impact the story. It was a nice insight. Not nice as in friendly or as in I wanted Ron to die, but a nice insight in the good specimen sort of way.
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Thanks! I hadn't gotten out my soapbox for a while, and it just kind of took over for a bit haha.
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I would have been so sad if this had happened!
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i know what would they have done without him!
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And poor Hermione would never have got to marry Ron!
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yeah what would she have done!
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Me either 
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what??? she couldn't have been in love with fred... i didn't want fred to die though
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Yes, I didn't want Fred to die too, but I guess it would be more dramatic if Harry's best friend was killed.
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when did she say that?!! why am i so out of the loop?
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I heard somewhere... I tried to search the interview but I couldn't find in any site
The only site was a Tumbrl called Harry Potter facts :
[link] - Fact number 209. They claim they have the author source for all the facts.
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half of those are made-up
like the one saying the snake that harry freed in the zoo is nagini? that's not true because they're two different snakes
same with the hermione could love fred- it's fake
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On this one they actually said it's false that the snake of the zoo is Nagini, but I don't really know about Fred and Hermione because I can't find it in any other source.
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???
I heard it wasn't, because they were two different snakes.
like the one in the Zoo was a boa constrictor (Not poisonous) and Nagini was poisonous
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Yes, this is what I said. Well, But I don't know about the other fact, maybe it's false.
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ah ok.
sorry for the misunderstanding
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It's okay 
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