OotP - feeling just a bit resentful...

[Rach]

No: HPFGUIDX 61683

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "shelaghcol" <ShelaghC at a...> 
wrote:
> (Been a member of this group for a helluva long time, but I don't 
> post often....)
> 
> Resentful just a tad towards JKR on behalf of Sirius.
> 
> I'm having a "what was the point" kinda time here about the books.
> 
> To elaborate:
> 
> Sirius Black is declared guilty of all those deaths without trial, 
> manages to stay sane for over a decade in Azkaban, escapes and 
meets 
> his parentally challenged godson, establishes a parental 
relationship 
> with said godson, is out for less than three years and....
> 
> he gets snuffed....
> 
> So, I repeat?
> 
> What was the point for him?
> 
> The poor man basically had no life at all, spent nearly half of it 
> either in prison wrongfully or on the lam, is never cleared and 
> that's about it - so sorry, Messrs. Black and Potter.
> 
> Anyone else having similar resentments about that whole thing?
> 

I agree. I have had the feeling since the end of PoA that Sirius was 
only living for Harry, and now having explored his past a little I 
believe that he had nothing left to live for. It did not seem that he 
and Tonks were close, so I doubt he had any family left worth living 
for. 

I keep deluding myself that he's not really gone, and beyond the veil 
is not what we think it is, but this is a very childlike view. 

Harry too is now so totally despondent that he would probably roll 
over and die given the chance. He loved Sirius more completely than 
any other adult in his life right now. 

What makes me feel resentful is that I suspected all along that 
either Sirius or Lupin would get the chop, but when JKR built up 
Sirius' character, making him one of the most three dimensional adult 
characters in the series I was convinced she could not possibly kill 
him off. 

I can only assume that this huge loss to Harry (almost as significant 
a loosing his father all over again) will serve to motivate him, or 
drive him on to fight for the Order and fulfil the prophecy.

"Rach"