OoP: What was the Point of this Death? And Phineas ??s

[Regina]

No: HPFGUIDX 61749

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kiricat2001" 
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> I confess up front that I'm a Sirius fan, so I'm probably 
approaching 
> this with a jaundiced eye. 

> Is this a comping-of-age thing where Harry has to deal directly 
with 
> the death

 After all, do 
> we all have to have a parental figure die when we're 15 to help 
us 
> grow up?

No we don't all NEED that. But  people who experience this *are* 
changed, or at least have a knowledge that others don't. It marks 
you. Kind of like being able to see a thestral. If you haven't seen 
one, you won't know what they're like until you do see one.

Regina