Harry and Sirius (was: Please pass the tissues )

[marinafrants]

No: HPFGUIDX 69964

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "susanbones2003" <rdas at f...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "marinafrants" 
<rusalka at i...> 
> wrote:
>   But do have a problem with the recent spate of posts that 
> > seem to claim that Sirius' flaws are all that there is to him, 
that 
> > he never really cared for Harry, that all of Harry's problems in 
> OOP were caused by Sirius' pernicious influence, and that JKR just 
> *had* to kill him off because there was absolutely nothing else to 
be 
> done  with him.
> > 
> > Marina
> > rusalka at i...
> 
> I guess I have been missing some posts because that would raise my 
> hackles too. What a tremendous over-simplification of characters 
and 
> events. I do feel somehow through the changes he underwent that 
JKR 
> was foreshadowing his death. I can't say how but by Christmas 
time, I 
> knew it would be him and I prayed I was wrong. Did you feel that?
> Jennifer

On the first read-through, I missed most of the foreshadowing, 
partly because I was reading so fast, and partly because I think I 
was subconsciously determined to miss it -- I just wasn't prepared 
to contemplate the possibility of Sirius being the one to die.  But 
now, rereading individual chapters, I'm seeing clues all over the 
place, right from the start, when Harry and the advance guard arrive 
at 12 Grimmauld Place, and Harry thinks it's like entering the house 
of a dying person.  I bet once I reread the whole thing through from 
the beginning, the narrative thread will become even clearer.  

Marina
rusalka at ix.netcom.com