Harry potter, why did fred die!?

you know, i always said, before the seven, that i didnt care if jk kills harry, hagrid, ginny, but never the twins, and that one thing im not goin to forgive her forever, because it was so sad, i just i cant believe it yet,

and dobby, because he was the only one who has a funeral, i cried a lot

I'm also the mother of twins, as another of your answerers, and I knew one of the twins would die. Writers have a tendency to use twins as like a spare character--not really understanding that the twin bond is very real and it leaves the other, surviving twin, as less than a whole person. One of my boys nearly died as a baby and had to have surgery. His twin cried every time he was put into his car seat in our vehicle and the other seat was empty. And they were 10 months old! Nothing against Ms. Rowling but after characters started dying in her books it became pretty clear to me the Weasley to die would be a twin. Charlie would have been the one we would have felt the least as readers because we didn't know Charlie well. But making it easy on us wasn't the point. Rowling has stated she wanted to illustrate how horrible Voldemort really was, the kind of life or death struggle that took place at the end of the book/series. Harry had to lose people he really cared about or the significance would be lost. I don't personally agree--it's fiction, we all understand that, and you can pull off a few literary miracles in fiction.

But why Fred over George? Rowling has stated that she knew it would always be Fred, but I've never heard an explanation why...

First of all, I bawled my eyes out when Fred died. I was a complete wreck for about 10 whole minutes, and I was reading it in the bathroom, so I was on the bathroom floor crying sooo much. By the end of the book, i believe that JK Rowling has secured a place in history as a murderess.

He was killed, as another said, for dramatic effect. I don't mean to sound insensitive, but I think one of the twins was doomed ever since they put the "Why be afraid of You-Know-Who when you should be afraid of U-No-Poo, the constipation sensation that's sweeping the nation" sign in their joke store window. It was very brave, and I was one of the funniest parts of the book, but it was really not very smart at all.

Also, they both went through life without letting anything really upset them. They looked at every bad thing that ever happened to them as another opportunity for a joke. Even when George had his ear cut off, he still made a joke of it. She needed to give them something really awlful.

Finally, JK Rowling had said that a Weasley would die, and unfortunately, the one of the twins would make the most sense to be killed :'-( Ginny and Harry had a relationship, and her dieing would be cruel to him,--although she usually doesn't seem to have a problem with that--and her death, no matter how sad, would not be as sad a the death of the boy who managed to put a smile on people's faces in the darkest times. If she killed Ron, then she would also have to kill Hermione because of how much they cared for each other, and if they both died, then Harry would not be able to go on. What message would she be giving us if Percy was killed after he comes back? Even if he hadn't come back, she coudn't have killed him; how could she, being a mother herself, put Mrs. Weasley through the pain of not being able to see her son one more time? Finally, neither Bill nor Charlie were shown enough to cause as strong of a reaction in most people.

Dramatic effect. He was a carefree, lover of life, just like his brother. Harry was probably closest to the Weasleys, and having Fred die was like having his own brother die... he took it harder than he took Lupin's death, although by then he might have just been in shock. The emotional picture of seeing Fred making light of the battle one moment, and then dead the next, is extremely poignant.

Why Fred and not George? Toss of the coin? Well, George seemed to take the loss of his ear pretty well, able to joke about it. But the loss of his brother is one he will not get over so quickly.

RE: How does Fred Weasley die interior the final Harry Potter e book? I heard that Fred Weasley dies interior the final Harry Potter e book, how does he die? and the way do the different characters die?

One of the Weasleys had to die, they couldn't be this enchanted family who fought all the battles and risked everything, yet didn't lose anybody.

It had to be somebody we really cared about for maximum impact, it couldn't be Percy for example. It couldn't be someone married, because that would be too cruel ...

By taking a twin, it made the emotional pain the strongest and most heart-wrenching.

JKR said that George named his first child Fred in tribute (see transcript at www.mugglenet.com).

Fred was a great character. I hated to see him go, but I would have like to seen one of the Dursley's go down. I think in all in all she did a great job with the ending. She killed off core characters but no one that people were emotionally attached to, except the twin. Which she left half behind, so I think she was generous. I also would have liked for Dudley to be dropping his son off at the Hogwarts train at the end. That would have been a great ending, but if I was so smart I would have written the book right?

I have to admit, I was mortified when Fred died. With me having twin boys and him being a twin, I took it as a personal affront!!! For me, killing off a twin is twice as bad as killing off a singleton. Unless you are one, or have twin offspring, you have no idea how close they become and that closeness doesn't lessen as they get older.

When Fred died, all I could think of was what poor George was going through.

Also, it was as though JR gave mum Percy back so that she could bump off one of her others and we'd feel OK about it!

Wrong!!!

fred was one of the best characters, but after george married and had a family he named his kid after fred....besides harry, ron, hermoine couldn't take that away from george...george was fred's brother and best friend

I would almost rather she killed them both. Picturing George alone is too sad!