They were fighting a war, it's not like she could spend 7 books killing off red shirts, I was expecting MORE deaths than we got.

Yeah I'm sad so many great characters died (like Snape, Bella, Tonks, Lupin, Mad Eye, etc.) but they needed to. I mean if there hadn't been so many deaths the story would have seemed flimsy and incomplete. It would have been as anticlimatic and boring as Twilight, where with few exceptions no one ever died. And I mean, as D_J said, in DH when the death toll rose so dramatically they were fighting a war; people were definitely going to die.

Not really

I don't think so. I mean, a lot of the great characters died like Fred,Sirius,Snape,Lupin,Tonks, etc. But I think she did that so that we, the Harry Potter fans, could learn that a part of living IS dying.

So true its war and people are going to die

It's realistic. If no one died I would have been disappointed, actually.

It left a stronger feeling to the story, especially since one of the major themes is war.

I agree with the above. It was more realistic than just offing all the opposing. It was a war and in war there are many many MANY losses. I was also expecting to lose more than we did.

No

She made the battle(and all of the other years) realistic...

I can understand the battle at the end, because it's a war. But she killed off some people for unnessary reasons. LOVE YOU SIRIUS BLACK!!!!!

She cshouldn't have killed Snape

Bella should've lived though.

Hedwig to

No, everyone character who died, died for a reason. They were all part of showing the sacrifices people made, and how serious the wizarding war was and how much people lost from it.

Hedwig is a bird XD

In war people die.

^ and birds xD

And birds, I forgot :P

I wish they all could have lived cause I love them but then It wouldn't have been realistic:(

I was a war. I'll still misss them though :(

But she could have killed one or two less..