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

[medeacallous]

No: HPFGUIDX 62000

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kiricat2001" <Zarleycat at a...> 
wrote:
> And, finally, the last thing that bothered me about the death was 
the 
> total lack of acknowledgement.  Does wizard society not have 
funerals?
> Or some sort of ceremony (even in this case if it had to be secret 
> given Sirius' legal woes) to bring together the people who cared 
> about the deceased?  I know Harry wanted to keep to himself 
> afterwards, but I felt horrible when he got up and left after 
sitting 
> by the lake for a long time, "wiping his face on his sleeve as he 
> went."  No one should have to bear grief alone.
> 
> 
> Marianne


Wouldn't a ceremony with all of Sirius's friends and well-wishers be 
a perfect opportunity for a mass-assassination of the Order?  That 
would be my main reason for not having one, if indeed they didn't.  
Perhaps they had one but didn't tell Harry about it, or maybe they 
want to wait until later in the summer (a ceremony linked to the 
Solstice, maybe.)

MC