[HPFGU-Movie] Adaptation

[Sherry Garfio]

Yes, Richard, other people do have things to say - but we're just trying to keep up with you!  I've been trying to follow the rule of reading before responding to make sure somebody else hasn't made your point.  I've finally caught up, and I don't think anyone has made this particular point yet, although I think Sherry Gomes touched upon it.
  
Richard <hp at plum.cream.org> wrote:
    Well, I had a problem with the Harry-Sirius relationship in the *book* anyway, mainly between the end of PoA and the start of GoF. Why Harry considers Sirius a more important correspondent for advice than Dumbledore is something which always baffled me. How they became so close (as far as Harry is concerned) despite spending just a few moments together feels 
strained to me.
  My take on this has always been similar to kids who grow up not knowing one parent.  The absent parent is idolized (we see Harry do this constantly with James), and the lack of closeness is excused by the enforced absence.  Harry knows that he *should* love his godfather, and so he does.  He understands that Sirius can't be with him because he's a fugitive.  He makes up all sorts of excuses for Sirius, and imagines what it would be like if they could be together with no real idea of what Sirius is like as a person.  In short, Harry loves the *idea* of Sirius.
   
  Sirius, meanwhile, is also role-playing.  Harry is his godson, and while he doesn't really *know* Harry, he knows he should feel protective and caring toward him.  Both of them are motivated by the relationship as it *should* be, and neither of them realizes or cares that there is no background intimacy to support the relationship.
   
  My two knuts.
   
  The Other Sherry
   


"Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open."
    -- Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire



		
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