Is that we simply don't care about her? This is meant to be one of the great falls of the books, and if it was a character we had met before and liked it could have been powerful and shocking. But instead it's just some annoying person we knew for about 5 mins before they were turning into a total sad-sack. Which largely results in a feeling of - oh noes, here we go again back to that moaning, doesn't make much sense, annoying story line.