[HPFGU-OTChatter] OoP:Death (Major Spoiler)

[Terry James]

>From: "stardancerofas" <glcherry at bellsouth.net>
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>Okay, now that that's is done. Am I the only person really, really,
>REALLY ticked off at this?

No.  See my previous posts.  I am totally, thoroughly, PO'd.  Anybody else.  
I mean, literally, anybody else.  It could have been Dumbledore, it could 
have been Lupin (although I'd have missed him like crazy too), it could even 
have been Hermione or Ron.  But not Sirius.

I expected
>a little more emotional showing over Sirius' death from Remus at least
>(and I know this is Harry's story, but would at least one paragraph of
>"and somewhere off in the Forbidden Forest...Remus Lupin wept for the
>friend he would never see again?")

And Hermione and Ron, too.  Harry's emotional reactions were perfect, but 
what about everybody else?

Now, I'm heart-broken, and to be honest
>don't want to read Oop again, much less the last two books in the series.
>Am I the only one who feels this way?

No...I think it'll be a while before I can face it again, too.  My favorite 
book is PoA, because it not only starts revealing some backstory and pulling 
the whole plotline together, but because it brings in Remus and then 
Sirius--characters who had ties to Harry's past, who knew his parents, and 
in the case of Sirius, can ultimately become a parent-figure to Harry.  It 
is comforting to think that Harry has someone to care about him.  His relief 
when he realizes, in GoF, that he can write to Sirius that his scar is 
hurting him....

Now, I can't read PoA and GoF and get that same feeling anymore.

Plus, I kept remembering the end of GoF, when Harry is in Dumbledore's 
office, and he's just gone through so much mess, and then he has to relive 
it all for Dumbledore.  And Sirius is just standing there silently, but with 
his hand gripping Harry's shoulder, so that Harry knows he's there.

And now, at the end of OOP, when Harry is in Dumbledore's office yet again, 
remembering all of what happened at the MoM, and what happened to 
Sirius...there's no one there this time.

And even though Harry's 15 now , and the book ends with many wizards lined 
up protecting him, supporting him, and Ron and Hermione are still alive....I 
read that scene in Dumbledore's office, and I think that never has Harry 
been so alone.

Terry LJ

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