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cards101
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PostPosted: August 13, 2007 8:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

um its a bird i guess maybe cause it is like the only person from the 1 book who did not die beside the mane characters just how the cookie crumbles
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PostPosted: August 14, 2007 1:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

looney_v wrote:
hey just found a quote from an interview with JK

'The loss of Hedwig represented a loss of innocence and security. She has been almost like a cuddly toy to Harry at times. Voldemort killing her marked the end of childhood. I’m sorry… I know that death upset a LOT of people!'

Thanks for that quote!
cards101, Hedwig did die, and yes she was a bird, an owl actually Harry's owl.
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PostPosted: August 14, 2007 1:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Spoiler:

Oh I was surprised to read that...I think it was unnessisary, but to think it over, if might have been an early demonstration of how serious death was going to be in this book. :S well, I think Hedwig shoulda stayed, because she was always there for Harry, I don't know, I think moody's death, that amongst others, was enough, I didn't feel Hedwigs death was justified.


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KimberlyLongbottom
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PostPosted: August 14, 2007 8:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

well he coudn't take her with him that would have just been too hard for the 3 to take a owl.
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PostPosted: August 14, 2007 9:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think the saddest wasn't her dying... it was that Harry didn't even get a chance to say goodbye and reconcile with her!!

If she died and Harry at least had the chance to bury her with love somewhere, that would've felt better.....
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PostPosted: August 14, 2007 10:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hedwig's death hit me almost as bad as Fred, Tonks, and Lupin :0
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manoj
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PostPosted: August 14, 2007 12:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yeah, tht wz terrible but not unexpected.
i felt so miserable coz hedwig's been a companion from the first book itself & wz amazin..the condition worsened whn it wz not much mentioned after its death lik that of dobbys
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JillianW
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PostPosted: August 14, 2007 12:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

When I read Harry Potter, I have really loud reactions like gasping and things like that and when Hedwig died, I opened my mouth so wide that the rubberbands on my braces snapped. I couldn't believe it because I thought she would survive the whole journey but I guess JKR thought otherwise Sad
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JamesMcG92
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PostPosted: August 15, 2007 7:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah Hedwigs death was tragic. She was like Harry's closest friend when he was stuck in the dursleys house every summer. Before I started the book I knew how many characters died (My friends told me) but I never suspected Hedwig to be one of them or to be the FIRST one!!! Sad...
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cards101
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PostPosted: August 15, 2007 8:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

by the time lupin died i just did not care about people dying
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PostPosted: August 18, 2007 8:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

didn't help harry??? I think she was the only thing that kept him sane while being trapped at the dursleys!!!
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PostPosted: August 18, 2007 9:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can say that I was shocked when Hedwig died...and I felt bad for Harry because losing a pet is awful!
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Theeighthhorcrux
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PostPosted: August 18, 2007 10:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I cared about it more as a symbol than an event. Hedwig was always comfort, period. I knew it would be rough once she died.
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hardboiled
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PostPosted: August 21, 2007 12:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I want an owl!
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shallowjal
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PostPosted: August 21, 2007 7:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hedwig's death was genius. I didn't expect it at all. And her being killed in the beginning of the book readied myself for the deaths to come.

The owl's death made me grasp the gravity of the situation which is the warring state of the magical community.

She died fulfilling a great service to move the plot forward. Thank you, Hedwig.

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I want an owl too! Hehe. But I would rather have a penguin than an owl. They're more cute!
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lusec
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PostPosted: August 22, 2007 3:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I didn’t see it coming that’s for sure but their was no emotional response from me because I knew that would be the least of Harry’s troubles. and i thought before i read the book that he was going to have to let her go when he went looking for the horcruxes
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PostPosted: August 22, 2007 8:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

being that harry was travelling at the moment i understand how it happened but she could have been set free or taken by the dursleys and set free later. (or the people who escorted the dursleys)
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Princessa
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PostPosted: August 24, 2007 7:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I couldnt beleive when Hedwig died Sad I didnt cry or anything, but I had to come back and read that part again because i felt, well.... sad. Crying
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Clau_goddess
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PostPosted: August 24, 2007 6:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yeah I honestly didn't believe it as I was reading it, then it hit me like a brick wall, that Harry was gonna have a difficult journey in the book, cuz like many of you said hedwig was his childhood confort while at the dursley, as well as hogwarts.
well wouldn't you guys say that Harry went from childhood to adulthood through out all seven books??? but the seventh one was like growing into a young man kinda experience, and it started by killing his precious hedwig.

yes i cried a little, because lousing ur childhood is kinda sad.
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PostPosted: August 27, 2007 5:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

sorry im late but which book did hedwig died?
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PostPosted: August 27, 2007 5:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

are you finished with the series? if so read on... if not keep reading...


Spoiler:

in the beginning of book 7


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PostPosted: August 28, 2007 8:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Princessa wrote:
I couldnt beleive when Hedwig died Sad I didnt cry or anything, but I had to come back and read that part again because i felt, well.... sad. Crying


that's what I did too. I was like, "Oh, Hedwig's dead", and I didn't accept it until I went back and read it again. Then I broke down.

RIP Hedwig, we love you!!

PS, you guys really should have put a spoiler warning on the top of this.
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