OOP spoilers : Death

[susanbones2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 63691

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Darrell Harris 
<tigerfan41 at y...> wrote:
> Just a few rambling thoughts.
> 
>  I found the death of Sirius to be more intense sad
> and disturbing because of its simplicity. <SNIP> I thought
> it was perfectly written.JKR tossed out so many
> teasers of others deaths I wasn't ready for it. After
> Molly's bogart I was sure a Weasley was doomed, then
> Arthur lived. At the time of Sirius' death I had
> McGonagall on my mind I was still worried she was the
> one tapped to die. When it was a red bolt of light I
> expected him to be stunned and out of the fight not
> dead. The fall through the veil of death was such a
> stunning suprise I didn't really come to grips with it
> for awhile. I had to stop reading and compose my mind
> before moving on. 
> 
>  As far as the story line I remember multiple posts
> prior to OOP saying someone had to die as a direct
> result of Harry's actions for him to learn the moral
> lesson needed. I see that in this. He was the reason
> Sirius was there. He has to come to grips with not
> just the death but with his own guilt.

YES! YES! You have put your finger on many things I have been 
thinking. But I knew Sirius was marked for death when he went to the 
platform with Harry and was spotted by Lucius. I don't completely 
understand how JKR's world works but I knew that Sirius had lost 
something, some crucial attachment to events that would enable him to 
survive his captivity at Grimmauld Place. (How in the world was he 
able to sustain himself for so many years in Azkaban?)He was rash, he 
was reckless and he did sort of egg Harry on to be the same. When 
Molly accused him of treating Harry more like a friend than a 
godchild, it hit me that somehow the Sirius that would not want to 
endanger Harry for a second had gone into the background and I felt 
JKR was demonstrating a flaw in order to make his death more 
plausible. How does that work seeing as it was no fault of his own 
that he died? I don't understand the connection completely but 
somehow this flaw of his seemed to mark him. Maybe his fierce 
struggle with captivity made him stay on Harry's mind more than he 
should have and Voldemort was able to capitalize on that. Yes, that 
might be it. That's the only person Harry would have behaved so 
recklessly to save. I don't for one minute believe Harry 
enjoys "playing the hero." How dreadful a charge. 
JenD
Not quite sure of what to do with herself now....