Dead Harry - Remus on Sirius

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 18911

Amber, you is a bad dark wizard.  I can't believe you wrote that 
subject line.  Notice, however, that I'm leaving it be.  I'm even 
adding my 2 gory Knuts.

> Voldemort will either want to
> make an example of Harry (kill him in a very public way for maximum
> shock) or get rid of him as quickly as possible (Avada Kedavra him). 
If
> he leaves his emotions out of it, Voldie will kill him as quickly as
> possible. 

Here's some free advice for Voldemort:  you can have the best of 
both worlds by killing someone quickly and quietly and then 
=displaying his body= in some disgusting, very public way for maximum 
shock.  It's the old put-their-heads-on-a-stake trick, and it's worked 
for Evil Overlords for centuries.

I can only bring myself to say all this because I'm so sure JKR isn't 
going to kill Harry.  I'm not so sure about Hagrid, though, or 
::sob!:: Lupin . . .

Speaking of whom, Magda wrote:

>And I don't think that Lupin had slammed the door shut on friendship
>with Black.  After all, once Black escaped from prison, Lupin could
>have gone to Dumbledore at least and advised him to watch out for a
>big black dog as well as for Black himself.  It would have been a big
>help to the authorities.  But Lupin didn't do that.  Could it be that
>deep down inside he couldn't bring himself to do it?

This resonates with me.  He says he was rationalizing because he 
didn't want to confess to Dumbledore that he'd betrayed his trust back 
in his school days; I'm sure if asked who betrayed James and Lily, he 
would say Sirius; but deep down, I think he still wonders if somehow, 
Sirius could be innocent.  All the evidence points toward Sirius's 
guilt, but when you know someone so well and you know that he would 
die for you or for the people he is supposed to have betrayed, I 
imagine some innermost part of you can cling to your judgment and 
intuition, even if the evidence is against you.

Amy Z
                 
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 "We could all have been killed--or worse, expelled."
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