Re: That Glorious Death

Sirius Kase wrote:

On Nov 29, 4:19 am, santosh <santosh....@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tweedle Dee wrote:
On Nov 28, 9:02 pm, Drusilla <gammanormidsERASET...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

So, who died the glorious death? Dobby, the elf, while saving
Harry, Hermione, Ron, Olivander, and Luna.

Yep. Dobby. Which for some reason, makes his death scene even
funnier to me now.

Er... why did you find Dobby's death scene funny in the first
place?

Probably because the entire House-Elf concept is a comic diversion
one, obviously.

There was nothing funny about Dobby's role in Deathly Hallows. I
believe some readers have been victims of pavlovian conditioning. An
elf appears and does something funny so they laugh. It happens again,
and they laugh. Then an elf appears and the reader laughs anyway even
when nothing funny happens. Then, an elf appears and dies saving some
of the most important characters of the story, and the conditioned
reader laughs.

Err, actually I was trying to explain why _some_ people might find
Dobby's death funny. I certainly did not. All the three deaths we were
actually made witness to in DH were quite sober episodes, even that of
the owl.

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