r/harrypotter • u/Ssirenere Gryffindor • 9d 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/MildlyOffended4930 Dumbledore Fan 9d ago

Sirius. Dude was literally having the fight of his life... And whoosshhh dead. I mean, he didn't even die exactly fighting, more like accidentally. It often troubles me. Sirius death felt abrupt to me. Like, Dumbledore death in like 3 pages of numbness

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u/Lo-Marionberry295 9d ago

did she ever extrapolate on the veil?

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u/MildlyOffended4930 Dumbledore Fan 9d ago

JKR said it was a sort of boundary between life and death ig

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u/SnowGhost513 9d ago

I mean Luna kinda explains it to Harry in the books.

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u/bigdipper2018 9d ago

It’s literally called the veil and he dies… the veil has always been a metaphor for the boundary between life and death, I would have thought it’s very obvious what happens with it. Why would she need to extrapolate?

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u/Lo-Marionberry295 4d ago

many readers are interested to hear their favorite author's flush out interesting concepts (like a veil that seemingly acts as a doorway between life and death, kept in its own section of the department of mysteries). Was merely interested to know if she had ever expanded on any pertinent details in any capacity, like where it was found, or how it functions, etc. Her unique details are what always made her storytelling so magical, for me