[HPforGrownups] Re: Blood sacrifice, Sirius & fanfic, good lines

[Terry James]

No: HPFGUIDX 61589




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In addition, has it occurred to anyone else (I
>was trying to catch up and read everything before starting this but
>people are posting so fast!) that another blood sacrifice has been
>made on Harry's behalf by someone who's related to half the Death
>Eaters?

Hmmm, good point here.  I wonder if that will work in somehow later?  I 
hadn't thought of that, thanks for bringing it up!
>
>I'd be curious to know if people who don't read fanfic are as upset
>about his death as people who do - I think most of my initial
>reaction to his death was that he's never going to grow into that way-
>too-reckless-to-be-completely-parental father figure or the
>irresistably wounded sex object that he frequently ends up in fan
>fiction.
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>Gertie

I've only read the first two Draco stories by Cassandra Claire, and while 
he's a character, there's nothing real sexy about him there.  In fact, he's 
a much better parental figure than he appeared in OOP.  Yet I am deeply 
extremely upset.  It's not even so much about him, although I thought he was 
a great character.  Not perfect, but who is?  The reason I'm so ticked is 
that he actually, genuinely cared about Harry.  Not about "Harry must be 
protected from Voldemort", not "Harry has to be kept safe so he can fight 
Voldemort and save the world", not even that twisted Snape "I hate him and 
his entire family but this is the right thing to do so I'm going to save 
him" --he cared about Harry himself.  He was the only grown-up who was able 
to express that in a way that Harry could accept--Lupin obviously has 
problems getting close to people and letting his emotions show, and Molly 
has gone WAY overboard--and was going to be in a position to eventually do 
something about it (bring Harry to live with him).  And now that's gone.

Dumbledore's big speech at the end about how he screwed up because he had 
learned to care about Harry so much didn't impress me all that much.  Nice 
speech, but actions move me more than words do (Neville pocketing his mum's 
gum wrapper had me blinking away tears).  My main memory of Sirius is his 
standing behind Harry's chair in Dumbledore's office at the end of GoF, with 
his hand on Harry's shoulder.  I am SICK SICK SICK about this whole plot 
twist.   So, maybe "no" to the fanfic thing.

Although that line of Dumbledore's about "he's watched Harry more closely 
than he can ever know"---hmm...Dumbledore as Old!Ron, anyone?

Back to Sirius, I did wonder about those herbs that are supposed to produce 
hot-headedness.  I thought myself that Kreacher must have been giving them 
to Sirius, but then nothing ever was followed up on that.  Somebody on 
OT_Chatter pointed out how Sirius' mood improved over Christmas, while 
Kreacher was gone, and then worsened again at about the time he returned.  
Maybe we'll find out more later.

My favorite lines:

3.  "It unscrews the other way."

2.  "Buttocks still on?"

and 1. When Phineas has asked if Sirius is dead, and Dumbledore says yes,
"I don't believe it," says Phineas brusquely.

I DON"T EITHER, Phinny-boy!  The U.S.S. SAD DENIAL (see OT) will hereby 
commission a portrait of Phineas to hang over the lounge fireplace, where he 
can come and visit anytime he wants.

There's an interesting parallel in the paragraph after that, where Harry 
thinks of Phineas walking through the portraits in Grimmauld Place, calling 
for Sirius, and one of my favorite lines in The Two Towers (book), about 
Boromir: "They will look for him from the White Tower of Ecthelion, but they 
will not find him."

Terry LJ

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