was Re: Interview w/ JKR [Sirius]

[susanbones2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 73137

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "junediamanti" 
<june.diamanti at b...> wrote:
> 
> RE: Sirius' death
> 
> 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

You touched on something I've been wanting to mention. Harry knew 
Sirius so his death was real in a way that Harry's parents wasn't. 
His parents, although a force in his life, were part of Harry's 
history, a history that he only knows in bits and pieces. Sirius was 
real to Harry, someone who'd acted as much like a parent to him as 
he'd ever known. Did anyone pick up on the fact that when he begged 
DD to kill him, he didn't say "And then I'll see my parents"? Of 
coures he didn't. Harry's parents are academic. Sirius was real. It 
was Sirius he wanted to see so badly that he'd welcome death. 
Cedric's death was just about the sudden and relatively random nature 
of death. Sirius's death was about that but also about loss, loss so 
great that you don't know how you'll go on. And on some levels, that 
about sums it up for people who loved Sirius and people who love 
Harry.
Jennifer