[ SECRET POST #2753 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2753 ⌋

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Comments

I don't mind if the audience gets to know the family first

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like the problem with killing off a family member for drama is that it has a tendency to not resonate with a lot of people. That's not to say that the feelings of those who have lost mothers/fathers (at a young age), or siblings should be discounted, but I think too often it comes across as blatantly manipulative to make a character an orphan. When you get to know the family, though, it's much easier to see aspects of people you love in them and that makes their loss actually impactful as opposed to merely meaningful only to the protagonist while the audience is left to try to relate to a state of orphanhood (rather than actually missing the parents as characters).

Sorry for the rambling mess. I'm just having hard time explaining what I mean. I guess what I'm saying is that I never cared that Lily and James Potter were dead whereas I did care about Sirius Black and so I think Black's death worked much better dramatically. Although I understand why the loss of the Potters was necessary to the plot.

Re: I don't mind if the audience gets to know the family first

[jaybie_jarrett]

Wow you got to pretty much what I was trying to say (sorta) with less words.

IA with this

Re: I don't mind if the audience gets to know the family first

[cloud_riven]

Exactly! I don't have much invested in feeling sorry for a character I'm interested in because they lost basically faceless family/friends in their life.

And with Lily and James, what we did get to see of them was through the lens of other characters talking about them. Aside from Snape, they were put on such a pedestal it was hard for me to find them believable, so having the pensieve scenes (along with some of Harry's loss of idolization) showing them as teens with serious problems was a nice change from how they'd been presented before (excluding Lily who got the good emphasis that she has a moral code she sticks to).