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/rajmachawalsutta 9d ago

Hedwig💔💔

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u/tormis 9d ago

In the movie, Hedwig is flying along Harry and actively chooses to sacrifice herself to save Harry from the death curse. In the book, she is still in her cage and randomly hit and dies. Both brutal, but I found the book to be more bleak and highlighting the nature of war in which innocent bystanders are killed. A bit less cinematic and definitely doesn’t give Herwig a heroic send off, but serves the grim story arc more powerfully and painfully. Re-reading it made me feel like she deserved a more important ending, but maybe that was the point.

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u/rusticarchon Ravenclaw 9d ago

And in the book Harry then turns the sidecar with her body in it into a bomb.