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It’s The Anniversary Of The Battle Of Hogwarts, And People Are Mad At J.K. Rowling Again

She apologised for killing off one character to save another, and people were UPSET.

by Sinead Stubbins  3 May 2016

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Overnight England commemorated one of their most sacred and sombre holidays: the anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts, an event documented in the 2007 tome, Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows.

For those who have blocked out the painful memory/are ‘too cool’ for Harry Potter (fight me), the Battle of Hogwarts was the final tussle between Voldemort and his Death Eaters, against the Order of the Phoenix and those who resisted the new social order. Lots of beloved characters died (including Harry) and relationships were tested.

If you haven’t taken the time to contact your family and friends in the British Isles with well wishes and condolences, you may do so now.

Because author J.K Rowling cannot keep her Twitter fingers to herself (and as we saw in last year’s heated arguments about Severus Snape’s legacy, neither can her fans) she took to social media to apologise once again, for using the Battle of Hogwarts to inflict so many painful deaths on her readers. She also indicted that Arthur Weasley (father of Ron, employee at the Ministry of Magic, friend to all) was almost on the chopping block, but that she changed her mind at the last minute.

It’s unclear why she felt the yen to apologise for a book that came out almost 10 years ago (she apologised for the death of Fred Weasley last year. Why is she doing this to herself?) but the fan reaction was swift: if she’s sorry about killing Lupin, why isn’t she sorry about the other characters that she’s killed off?

Ah, Harry Potter fans. You gotta love ’em! Now can someone please tell J.K. to delete her account? She needs to stop rubbing salt in our lightening bolt-shaped wounds.

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