Ah, yeah, fair point! And I think -- my foggy memories of doing the necessary math have them dead at 21, so yeah, incredibly young; of course McGonagall would be devastated. But I still wish that we knew anything about them besides "Lily was amazing, James grew out of being a dick, and their friends loved them." Those are good things to know! But I wish we knew MORE.
And YES. None of them make it to forty! It is so, so much more awful when you realize that all of them are basically teenagers who had to deal with war and had some tragedy destroy their lives before they were even properly adults. I mean, honestly, no wonder Snape still more or less has the emotional range of a teenager! (Not that I don't love Rickman's Snape, but he is clearly actually capable of being an adult, and his dislike for Harry is much less UNCONDITIONAL RAGE AT JAMES' SON than it is frustration that this kid is so freaking dense. I like it both ways! But Rickman is much less tragic.)
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And YES. None of them make it to forty! It is so, so much more awful when you realize that all of them are basically teenagers who had to deal with war and had some tragedy destroy their lives before they were even properly adults. I mean, honestly, no wonder Snape still more or less has the emotional range of a teenager! (Not that I don't love Rickman's Snape, but he is clearly actually capable of being an adult, and his dislike for Harry is much less UNCONDITIONAL RAGE AT JAMES' SON than it is frustration that this kid is so freaking dense. I like it both ways! But Rickman is much less tragic.)