Tear-Jerking Moments in the Series -- Some OoP and relation to Sirius

[Alissa]

No: HPFGUIDX 66702

This is a tearjerker that's even more so after OoP.

PoA: "What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wisard 
who has ever existed?" said Black with terrible fury in his 
face. "Only innocent lives, Peter!"

"You don't understand!" whined Pettigrew. "He would have killed me, 
Sirius!"

"THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED!" roared Black "DIED RATHER THAN BETRAY 
YOUR FRIENDS AS WE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU!"

And reading this now I'm ready to cry all over again. Sirius was 
always ready to make the sacrafice for those he loved. He dies rather 
than betray his friends, or leave them stranded while he saves 
himself, and sits pretty at home - just as he accuses Peter of doing. 
He has such strong convictions and motivations, and it wasn't all 
just talk. He *did* die for his friends. He died for love. He died 
rather than betray who he was, because if Sirius had not gone he 
would have suffered a death none the less. His pride would have died. 
Sirius could not stay at home and still be the same person, because 
it goes against everything Sirius in him. The situation alone killed 
him, and while I'd rather have a sad emotionally ransacked alive 
Sirius than a dead one, I think that inaction would have made it 
impossible for him to live with himself, living boared up in his 
parents house had been killing him slowly for a year before he 
actually died. He always blamed himself for the death of Harry's 
parents, why did he let Peter be their secretkeeper, as James' 
bestfriend he could never pardon himself from this. In the end he 
repays the debt the only way he can, he gives his own life to save 
their son. His death was in my opinion needless and perhaps in vain, 
but it was true to his beliefs and something he would have done again 
if he thought for one second it would save Harry. And that alone I 
can take solace in. 

*Sniffle* ... or rather.. *Snuffle*...

~Alissa (the newbie who wants to live in denial of Sirius' untimely 
death, but couldn't let the oportunity to pay homage pass)