Her name is Rowling, if you’d read most of the thread, you ought to respect her enough to use the right name.
Romeo and Juliet as an example of death being necessary? Fer cyin’ out loud, that play’s like a PSA on “this is your brain on teenager”. None of those deaths were necessary if the characters hadn’t all been stupid thoughtless morons.
As a classic tragedy, Shakespeare meant for Romeo and Juliet to die from the beginning. That’s the whole idea of a classic tragedy.. Just as Hamlet was going to die, Othello was going to die, etc. When a Elizabethan audience saw tragedy in the title, they knew that bad things were going to happen to the main characters. (BTW, the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet has nothing to do with this is your brain on teenager. It had to with your kids died because you were too busy plotting each other’s destruction. Why people focus on teenage hormones rather than the meaningless civil war in Romeo and Juliet is beyond me).
As for Rowlings, perhaps you should set your sights on all the newspapers who have gotten it wrong before you whine at me.. Or perhaps it’s because I’m too dumb to understand the beauty of the fanfiction Epilogue.