Sirius - HP=JP

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No: HPFGUIDX 73486

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Wanda Sherratt" 
<wsherratt3338 at r...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "marinafrants" <rusalka at i...> 
> wrote:
> Snape is out there being a valued member of 
> > the Order, contributing to the fight, getting trust and respect 
> from 
> > Dumbledore, teaching important things to Harry, while all Sirius 
> can 
> > do is impotently sit and wait. 
>  In that respect, I think he was a poor 
> influence on Harry.  Harry has a big task ahead of him, and a lot 
> depends on him shouldering it, whether he feels happy about it or 
> not.  Sirius was discontented, and he sowed discontent - I think he 
> was very selfish to express his irritation with Dumbledore to 
> Harry.  In fact, it always made me feel a bit scornful of their 
> relationship that it seemed largely to be based on shared 
resentment 
> of others.  Harry was always happy when Sirius called Snape names, 
> and reflected his own irritations.
> 
> Wanda
ME - Once again, Sirius is seeing Harry as James. This seems to be 
such a recurring theme. 
I guess at some point in the next two books, Harry is going to have 
to lay James' ghost. There's just too many people around him 
*assuming* he's James, or Lily, because that's who they knew...
Harry *almost* got it, after the Pensieve incident, but then it got 
submerged in the Death of Sirius - Harry's got to get back to 
realising James was just a man; his father, who he never knew, but 
still just a man.
Harry is the 'hero'; as he thinks he sees James performing the 
Patronus, but it turns out to be Harry, so he has to let go of the 
father he never knew to see his father and himself. 
AmanitaMuscaria