Dead Sirius *weep*--not

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No: HPFGUIDX 67939

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Scott Santangelo 
<owlery2003 at y...> wrote:
> mylarboxers <prsawyer at u...> wrote:
> > OK, so let's kill off everyone who was irritating in this book. 
> > Dorothy
> 
> Pauletta replied:
> >>>>I don't know if you read the original post but I am not 
advocating, nor are those folks that responded in kind to it, 
killing off the annoying characters.  I merely stated that I could 
not  work up a good cry for Sirius when he died.  He was not a 
terribly sympathetic character to me in this book.  Whatever 
happened to him in Azkaban, he escaped but his imprisonment doesn't 
seem to have changed his basic character--he doens't seem to be very 
> reflective after his ordeals.  He is something of an overgrown 
schoolboy . . <<<<
> 
> 
> And isn't that great! I think it's the genius of JK that she 
builds in that kind of paradox into her characters. The rebel scion 
of a dark, pureblood family, a survivor of Azkaban (perhaps his 
greatest achievment), a loyal friend and devoted godfather. Jeez, 
what's not to like? <snip>
 Owlery2003

Exactly. My point, perhaps a little strongly expressed, is that we 
don't have any perfect heroes in this book. I wouldn't want them. 
Lots less perfect than some, Sirius may have been. But still, I 
think, a hero.

Dorothy