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Originally Posted by straycat264  Agreed - Dobby's was the best handled death - Lupin / Tonks / Fred - I loved those characters, but the way the deaths were handled just didn't feel ... real ... had very little impact for me. They almost felt glossed over.
It felt to me ... that the ending was rushed - the last battle, the aftermath...
Maybe she was just desperate to get it over and done with.
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Actually, I thought that the Fred/Tonks/Lupin deaths were all on a par with the way the whole ending was handled. The background to the ending is that it is a massive great battle - everyone is piling in and the whole thing has all the horrendously fast pace and chaos that a battle produces. Hence Remus and Tonks die "off camera", and Fred's death happens so fast - if you read the passage, he dies in what seems to be an explosion of some sort, but the battle goes on, and Harry cannot stop to take time to mourn Fred properly - all he, and his companions can do is move Fred's body out of the way and get on with the task in hand.
That's the thing about battles - and wars. People don't die nice artistically-handled deaths. Deaths in battles are fast, brutal and messy, and for those involved, they have to keep moving and hold back the mourning and emotion connected with the deaths of their comrades until the danger facing themselves is past, and that day's fight ended.