OOP Spoiler: How the Death was written

[kwilson1003]

No: HPFGUIDX 66476

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Adana Robinson" 
<adanaleigh at h...> wrote:
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> This mirrors real life exactly in my experience; it's not the 
actual moment 
> of the person dying when you break down; it's when you realize 
later what 
> life is going to be like without them, when you feel that "hole 
inside you 
> where they were, where they're not there anymore" not an exact 
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> Harry felt something like that.
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> I think the death was written very realistically.
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> adanaleigh
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I agree with you.  Having had one of THOSE telephone calls, the shock 
of finding someone just disappearing out of your life like that 
doesn't hit immediately.  The death scene really affected me because 
of the memories it brought back to me.  I thought it was very 
understated and effective.  Mostly I couldn't get over the bad timing 
of it.  I really sympathised with Sirius in this book and the 
frustration he felt at not being able to move on with life.  To die 
so easily and so soon was the biggest tragedy of Sirius's death. Not 
at all unlike untimely deaths in real life actually.

Karen