I asked this question before. How did Fred Weasly die???? I've re-read the page where it says he dies seven or eight times but I still don't understand it. I deleted my question that said the question right in Large Print and I realized this, so I deleted it and asked it more safely.
2007-08-08 20:11:32 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Fred dies from an unknown explosion at the end of "The Battle of Hogwarts". I'm surprised you reread it and didn't understand it.
I would type out the excerpt, but it seems unnecessary as you have the book and you can read it for yourself.
To summarize his death: An explosion occurred while they were battling Death Eaters. The side of the castle was blown apart. Hermione, Harry, Ron, Percy, Fred, and the two Death Eaters they were battling went flying through the air. Fred was found dead underneath the pile of wreckage.
2007-08-08 20:30:29 · answer #1 · answered by xılǝɥ ⋆ 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Grrr you deleted my answer. The answer is ... nobody knows. The bodies were dragged into Hogwart's and dumped on tables like raw meat. She did nothing to describe their deaths or indicate that they died heroically in battle. They were just a bunch of dead people on tables. That was very wrong of JK to handle it that way.
She had about 100 or more pages of Ron Hermoine and Harry camping and arguing. She could have easily cut that down by aboiut half and given some of her characters dedcent send offs. Only Dobby the House Elf actually gets a death scene. The rest just ... die ...
I realize these are still children's books and you don't want graphic detail, but there could have been some comments on their heroism, some touching moments when the living characters say good-bye and pay their respects. But there was nothing. They were just dead meat.
These are characters kids grew up with through 7 books. For many kids it was the first book they ever read. They deserved to know how these people they had come to know so well died. I would never even treat my worst antagonist that way. As my protagonist in my series of books sometimes says "Everybody counts.". That is very important in literature. Death is death. It should be treated with dignity.
I realize this book is a great commercial success, but it is not a literary success. The proof is the number of questions here from kids who did not understand. They didn't understand the Kings Cross scene. They didn't understand the Snape Death scene. They didn't understand why JK didn't let them in on how the others died. It was just mentioned as Fred, Tonks, Lupin and about 50 others. Who were they? How did they die? That was a very poor way to handle deaths of major characters. And did she think she could pass off that epilogue and NOT have legions of kids clamoring to find out what Harry did for a living and where other characters ended up? That was just silly.
Now JK is backpedaling like a madwoman. She is on TV and giving interviews, making up new stuff to add to the ending. She is even having to write a book to explain the book. When you have to do that, you have failed as a writer. A final book in a series is supposed to answer questions. It doesn't have to answer them all or have a happy ending, but it should answer major questions. This book leaves kids with more questions than they had before and the proof is right here at Yahoo Answers.
As for Fred's death, if she hasn't already she will make something up. I was very disappointed in JK and how she let her readers down. These people had lives - they deserved some kind of honor in their deaths. Pax - C
PS ... Notice you got three responses - and all three are different. Nobody really knows. How silly of her.
2007-08-09 03:27:23 · answer #2 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
The wall he was standing by caved in/exploded and then he was dead. It's assumed that the wall falling down killed him in some way but its not very specific. Persiphone or whatever is thinking more of Tonks' and Lupin's deaths when she says that the bodies were just dragged in and said they were dead, because it definitely does show Fred dying from the wall falling down.
2007-08-09 03:45:43 · answer #3 · answered by juliamargaret13 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well the side of the castle basically collapsed so I think he must have been hit in the head hard enough to kill him or get an aneurysm.
2007-08-09 03:20:21 · answer #4 · answered by Tim 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A death eater killed him.I am so mad at J.K Rowling 4 killing one of the twins.I don't imagine how George's gonna live without Fred.
2007-08-09 04:34:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I thought that he turned to laugh at the joke percy had just made and then the wall exploded and killed him.
2007-08-09 04:27:42 · answer #6 · answered by Tony 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well - I thought that he died when the explosion happened at the battle of Hogwarts.
2007-08-09 03:19:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
(Spoiler Alert!)
He got killed by a death eater.
2007-08-09 03:23:44 · answer #8 · answered by Max A 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋