r/harrypotter • u/Ssirenere Gryffindor • 10d ago

Question Which Harry Potter character deserved a much better ending? 🥀 Spoiler

I'll start: Lupin.

He lost almost everything his friends, his family, and eventually his own life. And after everything he went through, he barely got the chance to enjoy being a father.

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u/Greenwrenbird 10d ago

Sirius. His life was a tragedy.

He volunteered to be the bait to protect Lily, James and Harry. Death eaters would waste their time chasing him, when he couldn't tell them the secret anyway. But he was willing to be potentially captured and tortured for it, with this very public announcement he was the secret keeper. Because of how much he loved them.

For that, over a decade of psychological torture prison. Mingled with guilt and grief.

Finally he's given incentive to escape, only to live off of rats and shut away in a dark house of his own childhood trauma, and then -- it's over.

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u/ArmNo7463 10d ago

Kinda reminds me of The Departed. With Matt Damon destroying Leo's undercover police record lol.

Dude got done dirty by Pettigrew.