Sirius questions and Harry angst? (SPOILERS)

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Ok. I finished OoP at 5 am last night after reading for 9 hours 
straight and I think it is awesome, JK is a genius writer, but I do 
have some thoughts.  What do you think?:

1)  Sirius:  Ok, I know that this may sound a bit cold and I'm going 
to have to reread one more time, but I'm just not feeling the Sirius 
death.  I expected that alot more prominent character would be killed 
off...i.e. Snape, Weasleys, etc.  I really liked Sirius as a 
counseling father figure in the previous books, but in this book I'm 
just having a hard time getting a good feel on the connection between 
Harry and Sirius.  I guess I just was expecting alot more development 
of Sirius's character and instead, he spends most of the book 
incredibly frustrated and then he is killed!  I was totally prepared 
to cry, but losing Sirius didn't affect me as much as Harry's 
frenetic efforts to contact him later.  Did anyone else feel the 
Sirius was a bit of a strange choice, or didn't really hurt you as 
much as others would have?  I just thought after reading all those 
reports about JK crying over killing a character, that it would be a 
much more developed one?

2)  Relationship dynamics with Harry and Cho, Hermione, Ginny, etc, 
were all so right on.  I loved how Hermione kept giving the boys 
insight into female behavior and how baffled they were about all the 
emotions going on in Cho's head..Loved the quote on p. 459 (american 
version) post-kiss confusion when Ron says:  "One person can't feel 
all that at once, they'd explode."  "Just because you've got the 
emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have," said 
Hermione...  That as sooooo classsic boy-girl!  Cho was a bit 
excessively weepy, but that is what being a teen is like for some 
people!

3)Absolutely fantastic politically suggestive themes w/ the M o M!  
How right on is that...government's like to turn a blind eye to 
problems until they are absolutely forced to recognize their 
existance!  

4)Harry.  I thought his anger was right on, and frankly I was happy 
to see it.  He has done a helluva alot and been through so much, his 
mellowness was a bit freaky earlier.  Ah being a teen.  The only 
thing that consistently pisses me off about Harry is that he should 
know by now that when something weird is happenning---weird dreams, 
pain in scar, etc...HE SHOULD GO STRAIGHT TO DUMBLEDORE!!! Why, why, 
why, does he always deny, ignore, hide from Hermione and Ron, consult 
w/ others, etc, instead of going straight to the source!!!  It 
irritates me alot in this book.

5)I think the dialogue in this book is the best so far. Even though 
so much of the book was dark, I laughed outloud quite a bit!