What's right and wrong with OOP; a prediction (woof!)

[i_tuan]

No: HPFGUIDX 71970

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sydney" <sydpad at y...> wrote:
> Pippin wrote:
> 
> > JKR told us repeatedly that this was a dark book, that it had a 
> > major character death, that Harry was going to have to look at 
> > death more closely. She never promised us an entertaining bit of 
> > light reading. OOP is tragedy. 
> 
> Oh, Pippin, thanks for writing that!  I don't think she was making
> Sirius out to be a hopeless case so that she would, in essence, be
> putting him out of his misery and it would be okay.  On the contrary,
> I think she made  Sirius suffer so much, be prevented from
> experiencing so much, because that is death is-- the monstrously
> unfair snuffing out of all potential (snuffing?  Snuffles? hmmmm....).
>  Sirius was the picture of unfairly wasted potential.

Unfair?  You really think so?
Death is the Great Leveller because it takes EVERYONE - what could be more fair than 
that?

Pippin is right:  'TRAGIC' is the word you're looking for.
--
Tuan, making his first list post....