OOP: Sirius thoughts ...

[lark_austin_black]

No: HPFGUIDX 67634

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "minetourjunkie" 
<sarah_wendling at h...> wrote:

> What I think it says about him is that his life was less important 
to 
> him than Harry's.   As Marianne says, sometimes it's the 
combination 
> of things and I don't think we can find one single reason Sirius 
> died.  None of the things leading up to it would have mattered if 
> that shot hadn't gotten through.  Everyone else in the room was in 
> just as much danger of death.  Sirius just got the short end of the 
> stick.  (yes yes, there are a great many narrative reasons it makes 
> sense too ...)

This is a very good point, there is no *one* reason...honestly, I am 
a very "down to earth" person when it comes to movies, books, etc. 
and I usually don't get emotional over things that are not *real*, 
but I cried when Sirius was killed...anyway, once I accepted it, I 
started looking at the reasons why he died, just as everyone else is 
doing, and one thing I havent' come across from any of the postings 
is one thought I had--maybe JKR wanted to show how much Dumbledore 
wanted to protect Harry from pressue and such, so, she had to make 
something like Sirius death (because of how important he was to 
Harry) to get him to start telling Harry more about how things need 
to turn out with Voldemort...I mean, he finally explained why Harry 
must put up with the Dursleys no matter how much he hates it there 
and how they treat him, and we learn what (in my mind) was 
inevitable, they cannot co-exist, one must destroy the other in the 
end...Also, I saw another good point made that he'll need to feel a 
sort of revenge towards Voldemort in order to *really* want to kill 
him--Harry seems the kind of boy who wouldn't just kill somoeone 
because he is supposed to, he has to feel a vengance for him...and I 
think that it was important that Sirius had so much hatred for the 
dark lord, and felt so much responsibility for James' and Lily's 
deaths that, now that he is "dead", Harry will have to avenge their 
deaths as well as Sirius--not that he wasn't angry about Voldemort 
killing his parents already, but, since Sirius was his father/brother 
figure and basically a second brother to his father, he developed the 
emotional bond he didn't have with parents (because he was a baby and 
wasn't really old enough to do that).