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

[Tamara]

No: HPFGUIDX 61894

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lori_blandy" 
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> Marianne:
> > > > 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? > >
> 
> Regina:
> > > 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. > >
> 
> Marianne:
> > 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. >>>>>>
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> Does anyone think it is a coincidence that Prince William lost a 
> parent when he was 15?
> 
> "Lori"

Lori, I've always wondered about royalty and the wizarding world.  
OoP is the first book in which it is mentioned, where Sirius says 
that the Blacks were like royalty.  Is there royalty in the wizard 
world???  So there could be a connection...