OOP: The Death (General impressions (spoilers), plus The Death & SHIP)

[Tara Blackman]

No: HPFGUIDX 63111

 
<snip>Maybe
> that's it. If the death had played more into these threads, maybe 
it 
> would've been stronger and more meaningful, again plotwise.  Let 
> Sirius be drawn out and killed, not by a deranged DE, cousin or no, 
> but by a regular person on the street, someone who believed the 
> misinformation that was out there about him and about LV not being 
> back and panicked.
>
> I did feel bad for Harry afterwards, but I felt for Dumbledore 
more.  
> He hurt so because he believed he'd let Harry down. Harry had been 
so 
> angry for so much of the book, his emotions didn't register as 
> strongly for me at the point.  What was frustrating was watching 
> whatever understanding he had for Snape drown in his grief.  It's a 
> vicious cycle.
> 
> Nina

I think that after PoA and GoF, I have always gotten the feeling that 
the "climactic scene" plays itself out fully in the next book. 
Cedric's death was a constant throughout OoP- so I'm waiting to see 
what JKR does with the aftermath of Sirius' death in Book 6 (how will 
I survive 'til then?!). I just read an interview transcipt where I 
got the impression that Sirius was meant to die since he was brought 
into the book and it seems (or maybe I'm hoping!) that this is 
somehow integral to the story. I agree somewhat that the death was a 
bit anticlimatic and indeed, after I finished the book, I must have 
re-read that section and the follow-up in Dumbledore's office four 
more times! I think that if you can compare it to a climatic movie 
scene, you could look at it almost like the final scene in Star Wars 
when everyone stopped to watch Obi Wan and Darth Vadar dueling, then 
Obi Wan 'dies' and Luke screams 'BEN!'.....okay- am I totally on my 
own here or is someone getting me?? ;) (for the record when 
Dumbledore and Voldemort where fighting, I thought of that scene too- 
with the robes swishing around... alright, alright- I'll stop :))

Tara