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Payne, Rob. "Hagrid lived, so why did these 10 movie characters have to die to manipulate your emotions?" Pajiba November 8, 2011. Web.

In this article, writer Rob Payne extensively analyzes numerous deaths of characters in film. Specifically, why their deaths didn’t feel necessary or coherent to the plot. For the death of a character to have actual weight, there has to be a concrete reason behind it. Additionally, there has to be logical reasons and motives as to why and how the character died. One can’t simply write in a death scene to play with the emotions of his or her audience. It has to be executed in an extremely precise manner.

Payne gives several examples showcasing character deaths that just didn’t make sense. The deaths of Remus Lupin and Tonks from the Harry Potter series stuck out to me in particular. Given the fact that Remus was the only qualified professor in the Defense Against the Dark Arts at the time, and Tonks was an experienced mercenary who was frequently hired to take down evil wizards, they should have been the least likely out of the Order of the Phoenix to die. But for some unknown reason, their years of experience and skills in spellcasting wasn’t enough for them to survive, whilst utter novices by comparison were able to escape the grasp of the Death Eaters. One can easily see why this makes absolutely no sense.