The Official Podcast Episode #341: Our Biggest Argument Yet

The debate was so intense that it shattered time and left charlie, Andrew, and Jackson frozen in time

It's amazing how they can all stay so incredibly still for the duration of the podcast, whilst ventriloquizing the whole time

Kaya was 100% spot on about what would happen with the reddit protest. They got their mod power threatened and immediately folded

Wow, for the first time in ages, no one has their cam on but Kaya, this feels like I'm in an episode of the twilight zone.

The one thing I can completely agree with Jackson and Andrew is the emotional impact of finding out that Fred died. To me it his hard because it was so random and we didn't know what was going on until it showed the body. Him getting blasted by a spell on screen wouldn't have made anyone cry, but seeing his whole family cry hit different imo. It also made Harry feel completely powerless because people are dying in places even where he isn't, so it made him want to give himself up.

Charlie just looking around at a funeral going "why the fuck are you guys even crying, you didn't see them die?"

Listening to 4 guys argue about a single characters death not being shown in a young teen movie makes my head hurt.

Guy who read the books here. Harry needed those deaths to happen "off screen" to shock him into sacrificing himself. He gets to the great hall and sees all his dead friends and he realizes he could have stopped it by surrendering. He's supposed to not expect it and its supposed to shock both him and the reader into realizing that if it keeps going like this everyone will die. Those deaths mean something because they motivate Harry to make the ultimate sacrifice to prevent more death.

I'd be able to see Charlie's point to a limited degree if it weren't for the fact that Harry Potter is almost entirely fixed to Harry's perspective. In order to have a dedicated death scene for every character, Harry would have to be present every time someone dies. They're at war, there's a lot at play, and we're only following what Harry sees of it, so there's naturally a lot happening off screen.

Surprisingly I'm actually with Andrew and Jackson on this one, especially when it comes to Fred's death. It happening off screen is intentional, and Harry finding out like that is very realistic, that's one of the scariest things about war. You can only do so much, you can't always be there to have one of your guy's back, or to even see what happened. You finally get a chance to recover and rest, but then you find out someone you cared about died, and you didn't even know. That will haunt you just as much as witnessing it. The lack of emotional build up and sudden shock of learning about their death, often as you see their corpse, is the way it often goes. It's cold, sudden, and you don't get time to even really process it.