OOP: Sirius and death (the point of it)

[azevedan]

No: HPFGUIDX 62027

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Charles Phipps" <tcp at z...> 
wrote:
> In any case I think Sirius' death should be treated as I think it 
>was intended by Rowling, a senseless tragedy.
> 
> Voldemort and his death eaters in order to remain scary require 
>the dramatic necessity of showing how bad they really are while 
also 
> winning victories that remind you we're not in cartoon land where 
> KAOS will be beaten without causalties.
> 
> Celdric Diggory was I think the first of what J was trying to 
show. 
> Celdric was a bright, athletic, intelligent, sociable man who had 
his 
> life snuffed by Voldemort for no reason whatsoever.  
...
> Sirius died not 
> because of a story standpoint really (except where we point 
> out 'God'/JK could have adverted it) but because these are 
dangerous 
> people who don't care about life.

That's been exactly my thinking.  Good people die for no good reason 
at all.  I think it's a measure of the depth of the HP universe that 
people are so upset by Sirius' death.  I didn't like it either, but 
it certainly ups the ante (in terms of suspense).  No telling what 
JKR will do before the end.
Ann