[HPFGU-OTChatter] OOP. The speech & the big death

[Terry James]

>From: RSFJenny19 at aol.com
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>Subject: Re: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: OOP. Impressions. The speech, death and 
>the Dursleys
>Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 17:16:28 EDT
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>As much as I LOVED the book ... I was a little disappointed with 
>Dumbledore's
>"tell you everything" speech.  <sigh> JKR made this out to be the BIG thing
>we all don't know, but ... well, did anyone think book 7 would end with 
>Harry
>on the sidelines? It just always seemed a given to me that Harry would be 
>the
>one who'd defeat Voldemort at the end of book 7, so knowing that that is 
>his
>destiny wasn't the mindblowing shock some other things were.


This may have been the big thing that we all knew, but really, Harry 
couldn't have been expected
to realize at 15 that only he can ultimately destroy V.  He spent a lot of 
time telling HR that he
wasn't that good at DA, he had a lot of help, he couldn't have done it on 
his own...It never dawned on him that he wouldn't be either still at school 
getting the Daily Prophet news that DD had killed V, or at the very most 
helping catch Dark Wizards as an Auror.  The whole "me or him" thing has to 
be news to Harry.

No, what this speech failed to deliver, in my mind, is even more crushing 
guilt (already dealt out liberally, thanks JKR!).  Nowhere did it dawn on 
Harry that his parents were killed because of HIM.  We know he's 
important--after all, the series is named after him--but all this time he's 
thought that they were killed because they were opposing V., and V. just 
tried to kill him too because he was there.  Now he knows that they only 
died so V. could get to HIM.  When will this dawn on him?  I realize he was 
occupied with other problems at the time, but eventually it's going to creep 
into his consciousness.




>Like Siruis dying.
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>OH. MY. GOD.
>
>Granted, the writing was on the walls, so to speak, throughout the book, 
>but
>Sirius was <sniff> my favorite character. No wonder she cried when she 
>wrote
>it!  I cried  for the rest of the book!
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HOW COULD SHE DO IT?  HOW?

OK, sorry for yelling.  HOW? When this is all over, Harry needs a safe place 
to go to, someone he can depend on to go home to, because I think we all 
agree DD will snuff it before the end.  WHERE WILL HE GO NOW?  WHO WILL HE 
GO TO?  AAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

(breathe....breathe...deeply.....there we go....)

I am so mad, I could chew iron and spit nails.  The only thing keeping me 
even remotely hopeful is that we don't have a body.  Babylon 5 rule of 
death--If you don't have a body, you can't guarantee the person's dead.  
Maybe...somehow...but I won't even say it, for fear of ruining it.

And as for the few moments when I thought that Harry might be able to 
communicate with Sirius through the mirror, on the other side of the 
veil...I mean, they have to be able to talk over there, Harry heard them...I 
don't even have vocabulary for what I felt when Harry broke the mirror in 
anger.

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