OOP: Sirius thoughts ...

[Claire]

No: HPFGUIDX 67355

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "minetourjunkie" 
<sarah_wendling at h...> wrote:
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> So, where do I sign up for the denial of Sirius' death group?  I'm 
> holding out hope for some sort of miracle.  Unlikely?  Sappy?  
> Contrived?  You bet it would be.  But I could get past that to 
have 
> Sirius back.  I am convinced he could be pulled out from that 
> curtain ... ah denial ... such a lovely state of existance.

Me:
I'll be in line to sign up right behind you, Sarah.  Sirius didn't 
even make my "short list" of possibilities for the death.  I wasn't 
shocked or upset the first time I read it--I was in denial.

> 
> Worst moment for me?  Harry finding that mirror.  Ah if only he'd 
> thought of that sooner ... nothing more upsetting than 
hindsight ... 
> having lost a parent myself, it was most upsetting to watch 
Harry's 
> denial as he tries to find any method of contacting Sirius.  Very 
> nicely done, JKR.
> 
Me again:
Agree there, too.  I've lost both my parents and so often wished I 
had a means of communicating with them again.  I was in tears 
reading the whole scene, especially when the mirror broke.  It was 
as if his last "tangible" link with Sirius was gone and, with it, 
his shred of hope.

Claire