[little smaug]

I can see why the deaths weren't detailed in the final battle - it is a battlefield, which means there are no drawn out monologues, no dying words, no noble deaths. It's hard, it's fast and it's brutal. In that respect, I think Jo captured the atmosphere perfectly.

And yet it's that point that made me sure one of the major characters would die right at the end, after all of the fighting had finished, cut down by a stray Avada Kedavra from a fleeing Death Eater. Because for all the unnamed masses who give up their lives defending who and what they love, there will always be a single figure who dies for no reason.