Do people like SYCOPHANTS?

[lucky_kari]

No: HPFGUIDX 36703

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "cindysphynx" <cindysphynx at c...> wrote:
> When it is the Trio versus Sirius, we're all routing for 
> the Trio and no one feels sympathy or empathy with Sirius.  (Right?) 
 
> Even when Harry is standing over him threatening to blast Sirius.  
> (Right?)

Errr.... no. I did feel sorry for Sirius. I started feeling sorry for 
Sirius at the point where Lupin asks "Does anyone deserve it?" and 
continued till I discovered he wasn't the bad guy. 

> And in the Shrieking Shack, there's just 
> no room for that.  Lupin is staking a claim to sympathy in a Big 
way, 
> Sirius is doing the same, Harry always is entitled to some, and Ron 
> has a broken leg.  Where am I supposed to find some extra sympathy 
> for Pettigrew?

But Pettigrew's the only one facing immediate death. Like Elkins, my 
pitymeter tends to work on that little fact. 

> Interesting.  Then does this mean that Crouch Jr. had your sympathy 
> when the dementor sucked out his soul? 

Yes! I found Crouch Jr. at the end extremely pitiful and pitiable. 

>How about Buckbeak, and by 
> extension, Hagrid?

I can't work up that sort of sympathy about fictional animals. Sorry. 
It was sad Buckbeak was going to get killed, but I never related to 
Buckbeak as a character. In real life, it's different. How many people 
have backed away from killing a carpenter ant not because of the "eww" 
factor, but because it's trying so hard to escape from you and live?

Eileen