was Re: Interview w/ JKR [Sirius]

[susanbones2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 73102

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kiricat2001" <Zarleycat at a...> 
wrote:
>> 
> Since mine was the original quote of how some of the "potential 
> allure is lost" I feel I must respond.  This is not dismissive at 
> all.  It's not the same as saying "I won't read the books." Or "The 
> books are going to be awful because my favorite character is gone."
> 
> It merely means that I won't have the same level of anticipation, 
the 
> same counting-down-the-hours thrill that existed before OoP. I will 
> read the books, probably much more slowly, the first time through 
> because I want to know what happens, but I won't be chomping at the 
> bit, sweat pouring from my brow, locking myself away for the 
weekend 
> to *devour* the books. They will be more, well, like books, and 
less 
> like a life-pausing experience.
> 
> I can't help but think how all the devoted Snapists would feel if 
it 
> had been Snape who died.  I'm sure they all would want to finish 
the 
> series, but I would find it hard to believe that, at least some of 
> them, wouldn't feel a lack of something in them. Would their eager 
> anticipation of the new books be the same, knowing there was no 
more 
> Snape? 
> 
> Marianne

Marianne,
I understand from my heart what you are saying. Knowing that Sirius 
is gone takes a big punch out of things for me.  I will read the next 
two, of course, but it will be very bittersweet. I will be hoping for 
some measure of happiness for Harry in the next 2 books. I will read 
to see all the loose ends tied up but I won't be reading to see if 
Harry ever gets to live with Sirius. I will hope that Siri's name 
will be cleared posthumously, but I won't be reading with the same 
intensity as if he were alive. I wonder if JKR anticipated the amount 
of feeling that this death, this particular death would generate? (I 
read your posts assuring people almost daily that he is most 
assuredly dead...). Could she have guessed that the hole she created 
would not close up for many of us and that we'd find it so difficult 
to let go? If so, then she is a genius and mad one at that.
Jennifer