Intro pt II: Plotholes and Sirius

[Tasukibeth1 at cs.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 70756

Hey, since I has so many questions, I had to make two emails!


Plot holes and the Prophecy please help(!) - 
Why bother guarding the prophecy at all? If the OoP knew what the prophecy
was (and they must have, since DD has it safe in his memories) already, why
not just destroy it so VM can never have it? I just don't get it.
and speaking of things I don't get, how did LV know that the night they all
finally broke into the DoM was the same as the night that Harry had the
vision of Sirius? Surely he couldn't have predicted that the gang would ride
the Thestrals to London, and he couldn't have known when Harry finally saw
the vision all the way through to its end. So if this is the case, how did
he know to call all the DE into the very spot that Harry and company would
show up? And if Lucius, who was at the forefront, knew that Harry could
endanger/break the prophecy, then why didn't he just perform some sort of
spell to push Harry away from the shelf before he could grab it? I
just....the whole thing was confusing and far fetched to me, and I am
desperately seeking an explanation that makes sense to me.

OT: Who won the house cup????? Anyone?


SHIP:
What is your opinion of the chilly reception exchanged between Harry and Cho
in the train home? As a Cho fan, I was disheartened to see that their
relationship-to-be seemed to suddenly have pooped out. I know it is
unrealistic, not to mention BORING(!), to always end up with the first person
you date, but I was still hoping that the relationship might develop a
little more. Perhaps this is where Luna comes in? I dig Luna and have to 
admit that she *is* much more interesting than Cho, even if Harry doesn't think 
so..yet.

"The Change" in Sirius IMHO (a little long) - 
People have had a lot of opinions on why Sirius' behavior in this book was so 
wildly different from the Sirius that we knew and loved int he previous 
books. To be honest, the change didn't shock or bother me at all. Why? Well, think 
about it. Until the very, very end of PoA, Sirius is a crazed murder; a wild 
dog on the bus; a scary boogieman who possibly killed Harry's 
perfecter-than-perfect parents. After the misunderstanding is straightened out, he goes into 
hiding FOR A YEAR! What do know about this year, other than the occasional owl 
Harry received? How do you spend a year in isolation AFTER spending 
**fourteen** years simply struggling to exist with your sanity in tow? How do you get up 
in the morning with a life like that, with no one but a hippogriff to talk to? 
How do you buy your food if your face is plastered all over town? How do you 
spend your days, fully aware that you cannot write too often lest your letters 
get tracked? How can we feel the pain or loneliness that might have filled 
Sirius' days without being there with him? All we have is Harry's point of view, 
in which Sirius is the perfect, loving father figure.

So a year comes and goes, and Sirius is still in hiding. But the OotP needs 
him! At least he has something to do now! Woo-hoo! He can see his friends 
again, he can hang out with fellow human beings and contribute to the worthy 
cause!!!!.

Except that there is one problem.

The only available space is the one place that Sirius can never (mentally) go 
back to -- the home of his dark wizard family - a mother who shrieks her 
hatred for what he is, and a house elf who resents him and doesn't even bother 
lowering his voice to say so. He is even more trapped than before; at least in 
the isolation of his hiding, he has the peace of silence, where he would not be 
constantly be bombarded by the memories of everything that made him miserable. 
(Now I had a happy childhood, and I love my parents. But after becoming an 
adult and leaving the nest, I still cannot spend more than a night over there 
without getting the heebie-jeebies) Whether or not his occasional confusing 
Harry with James is a result his continuous mental breakdown or whether he 
*always* felt that way but we never saw it from his POV, we will never know.

I am not Sirius bashing here! I love Sirius, and I do believe that the 
relationship between Sirius and James caused Sirius agony every day of his wretched 
life -- he sees James in the boy he is supposed to be protecting, but just 
like he couldn't protect James, he cannot even get the chance to redeem himself 
by protecting James' son, since he is imprisoned in Grimmauld place.

I miss Sirius. I mourn him, and his demise was so sudden, that I, like Harry, 
had trouble believing it for a long time. No blaze of glory, no poignant last 
words, no teary good-bye, not even an "I love you Harry." Nothing. Just a 
wand blast and a stumble through the veil and  *poof*. Even his death, like his 
life, was unfair. Yet I truly believe that no matter where he is (maybe he will 
turn up in a portrait or something), it has to be better than what he has to 
suffer through on This Side of the veil. I don't want to sound cliche, but 
Sirius has to be in a better place than what he had to suffer through for a large 
hunk of his life.

Just my little opinion!

Beth in Sacramento



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