OOP: Heartbreaking Irony

[snazzzybird]

No: HPFGUIDX 67676

I'm on my second reading of Order of the Phoenix.  The first time 
through, I tried my best not to rush, but wasn't completely 
successful because... well, you know.  The second reading is for 
observing and absorbing.  On page 462 of the British edition, this 
passage stopped me dead in my tracks:

'I want you to take this,' [Sirius] said quietly, thrusting a badly 
wrapped package roughly the size of a paperbook into Harry's 
hands.  '...I want you to use if if you need me, all right?'

'OK,' said Harry, stowing the package away in the inside pocket of 
his jacket, but he knew he would never use whatever it was. <b>It 
would not be he, Harry, who lured Sirius from his place of 
safety...</b>  
[Emphasis mine]

He knew he would never use whatever it was, so he stashed it away and 
forgot all about it.  And because he forgot about it, he fell for 
Kreacher's ruse -- and he *did* lure Sirius from his place of safety.

What absolutely heartbreaking irony.  Nobody can twist the knife like 
JKR.

--snazzzybird, who doesn't believe Sirius is really dead, but who 
aches for Harry because he does believe it.