While personally, I think this is a entirely legitimate direction to take with the story, I’ll point out that on some level those 90 chapters of relevance can exist for the purpose of heightening the impact of the character’s removal.
It’s entirely possible to deliberately write a female character who exists purely for her death to motivate a male character (or vice versa, but it’s likely that fewer people would complain,) who’s well developed and active in the story for a long time, if the author is doing so simply to set up the extent of the motivation. And I think some people are concerned that, given that Eliezer planned Hermione’s death from the very beginning, this is just what he did.
Yup, this is pretty much my point. Of course, this fic being as it is, Hermione may be back alive in a couple of chapters time, which will change things.
While personally, I think this is a entirely legitimate direction to take with the story, I’ll point out that on some level those 90 chapters of relevance can exist for the purpose of heightening the impact of the character’s removal.
It’s entirely possible to deliberately write a female character who exists purely for her death to motivate a male character (or vice versa, but it’s likely that fewer people would complain,) who’s well developed and active in the story for a long time, if the author is doing so simply to set up the extent of the motivation. And I think some people are concerned that, given that Eliezer planned Hermione’s death from the very beginning, this is just what he did.
Yup, this is pretty much my point. Of course, this fic being as it is, Hermione may be back alive in a couple of chapters time, which will change things.
Hush, I convinced myself that Snape was really a bad guy in the original books, I want this to be a surprise too.
He was a bad guy. He happens to be a bad guy who has the same broad tribal affiliation.
You mean like Cedric Diggory? (Tv Tropes Warning)