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

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 61764

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Regina" <rmm7e at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kiricat2001" 
> <Zarleycat at a...> wrote:
> > Here's your obligatory spoiler space:
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> > I confess up front that I'm a Sirius fan, so I'm probably 
> approaching 
> > this with a jaundiced eye. 
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> > Is this a comping-of-age thing where Harry has to deal directly 
> with 
> > the death
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>  After all, do 
> > we all have to have a parental figure die when we're 15 to help 
> us 
> > grow up?
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> 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.
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Granted. My mother died when I was 13 and the effects of something 
like that do change things for you and give you a different sort of 
knowledge.  The flip side of that is that you are not necessarily 
blessed with figuring all of this out, or how you deal with it, or 
how it will affect your actions, your beliefs, etc. until long after 
(maybe years after) that person dies. 

 What I was reacting to is a train of thought a number of people have 
proposed that seems to be "Sirius is a parental figure.  Harry has to 
learn to grow up and stand on his own. QED: Sirius has to die."

It simply makes no sense to me.

Marianne