Please pass the tissues - Mr. Weasley

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 69522

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "savrsd" <savrsd at y...> wrote:
> I just have to say I am on Chapter 37- The Lost Propechy and I want 
> to cry. I feel so sorry for Harry - I feel his pain. It hurts that he 
> has just lost his godfather and that he was used once again by the 
> Dark Lord. I feel that Harry has just lost the one person that he 
> could really depend on. ...but who will take Sirius place? Maybe 
> Lupin? ...edited...

bboy_mn:

I would have sworn that Sirius would not die in this book, or the next
for that matter, because Harry needed him too much. He is the one
independant person that Harry could turn to. By independant, I mean
someone with no other conflicting agenda.

Mr. Weasley would make a good father substitute, and I could see the
Weasley family making a direct concerted formal effort to make Harry a
more permanent and true member of their family. 

But, Mr. Weasley does have another agenda and that is his other kids.
I think many times when Harry's life gets complicated and he needs
advice, it would be difficult to get unbiased advice from Mr. Weasley
because whatever the problem at hand is, it is certain to affect Ron.

Lupin might be a good substitute, but Lupin is trapped in his
desperate desire to have people like him, so it would be difficult for
him to make the hard decision. It would be difficult for him to say
what Harry needs to hear when he knows the Harry does NOT want to hear it.

Sirius's absents leaves such a big hole in Harry's life. I really
don't know what he will do about it, I really don't see what he can do
about it, and that scares me.

I noticed a trend near the end of the book, that also has me worried.
Harry seems to have withdrawn from the world around him. Knowing that
he is slated to die, or to kill; he feels very removed from the people
around him. He's not interested in Cho any more. Why pursue love, when
 you know you days are numbered? You only cheat yourself, and those
you dare to love. Why stand by close friends, when you know you are
destine to lose them? Why allow other to be near you, when you know
that nearness puts them at risk? 

No, the safest thing to do, is to just keep everyone away, to put
emotions, desires, hopes, dreams, and everything else that makes life
worth living into a very tight box, seal it up, and file it away. 

Harry is so completely singled out now, so completely separate from
everyone else, and from all normal experience, that he never can, and
never should, and never will be normal, so why fight it. At least,
that's how I see Harry reacting, and I don't think it's very health.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn