TBAY: OOP: Too much butterbeer--Terry gets the D!Ts (long)

[Star Opal]

No: HPFGUIDX 66671

Star Opal sat on a bench outside the Royal George, the mourners and debaters 
getting a little too rowdy for her taste. Suddenly a loud *crack* sounded 
and a woman Star recognized as the captain of the USS SAD DENIAL, appeared.

"Oy! Its Terry, right? I wanted to ask you about this SAD DENIAL thing you 
said, 'But I have read all those who truly loved Sirius and are in mourning, 
and it is to those people that I address this invitation: Feel free to visit 
the U.S.S. SAD DENIAL!' What if I didn't *love* Sirius, but just don't think 
he's dead? How would that work?"

Suddenly the woman yells, "I'm not that insane DENIAL-ist! In fact I don't 
believe a bit of it, they don't even have hardly any weapons at all!"

Star blinks, "Oh..." Then it dawns on her, "I get it! You're a Dark!Terry, 
its happened before, internal conflicting beliefs and such."

D!T goes on not noticing what Star said, "She's out there holding that 
STUFFED BEAR, saying things like, 'Are you telling me that a grown wizard, 
with a wand, could be killed by accidentally passing through a veil? Are you 
telling me that, with all those wizards working in the Department of 
Mysteries, that that never happened before? Somebody couldn't come along and 
say, 'Dang, another one fell in?  He was still alive?  Well, hold on a 
minute, I'll fetch him out for you...' No, that whole veil thing was 
fishy.'"

Star giggles, "That's actually a funny thought..." D!T glares at her "... In 
a, ah, completely morbid, farfetched, in denial kind of way."

"Then," D!T continues after glaring at Star, "She comes out with this no 
canon answer: 'There's the argument that Harry needs a loyal father figure 
to go home to at the end; there's the argument that if Sirius is gone, no 
one has that close 'godfather' bond with him--which might even entail a 
magical binding agreement to protect him.'"

Star interupts, "Yes I have a problem with that defense too. See, that was 
one of the big arguments for predicting Lupin's death. That the 
'father/friend/MWPP member role' had been taken from him by Sirius and, 
thus, had no more important ties to Harry himself. Well, that's been solved 
now hasn't it? Sirius, the last true member of MWPP is dead. Lupin is safe 
in his two roles to fulfill. Knock that one down from the list in my 
opinion. Besides Sirius wasn't a good influence on Harry, Pensieve or no 
Pensieve."

D!T looked at Star in a new way, "Yeah, so I told her, 'JKR! She _said_ he 
was dead!  She cried over him!' Now that's proof if anything."

"Well maybe not, didn't JKR say that she cried because she knew how it would 
effect Harry? Harry believes Sirius is dead, so he has to grieve. JKR likes 
Harry, so it must've been painful to put a character in such a situation. 
Besides there is that thing with the Thestrals, thats quite convincing 
actually."

D!T glares at Star again, "So you *do* believe."

"Heh, well, for me its more of an intuition thing. I never really got 
attached to Sirius, and the canon is pretty solid against him surviving. BUT 
my gut tells me he isn't dead. Its that rule of soap operas 'there's no 
body, so anything is game.' Even if I was hit over the head with a huge 
GetOverItHe'sDead mallet, I still wouldn't except it on personal merit."

Dark!Terry throws up her hands and walks off muttering about crazy people 
and refusing to except the obvious.

Star Opal
who's been meaning to write in regard to SAD DENIAL but never got around to 
it

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