was Re: Interview w/ JKR [Sirius]

[junediamanti]

No: HPFGUIDX 73124


> 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

June: Anyone feels the same way when a character they particularly 
feel for dies.  I remember being appalled when Gandalf apparently 
died in LOTR on the first reading.  

Sirius wasn't my personal fave character.  However, I felt appalled 
for Harry when his death happened - how could this happen to someone 
who had already lost so much that was precious in his life.  For 
that matter, how cruel it was that any real chance of life was 
snatched from Sirius after what had happened to him.  Just a 
reminder that life is not always fair, but sometimes inexplicably 
cruel.  

If nothing else, there's a whole lot of us out here dying to see 
Bellatrix get hers.  And additionally, although LV is already 
responsible for the deaths of Harry's parents, in some ways this 
death was emotionally worse for him - as he knew Sirius.  I think 
this struggle between good and evil just got personal.

June