OOP--SPOILERS--- Was Re: OOP: A terrible thought - SS HP

[jmgarciaiii]

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "backstagemystic" <idcre at i...> 
wrote:

[snip]

> Sirius struck me as a man trapped in his past, trying to will 
James 
> back to life in the form of Harry, and realizing over the course 
of 
> the story that this would never be, and that hit him hard and 
played 
> the key role in his overall restless melancholy and recklessness.
> 
> When Sirius was dueling Bellatrix Lestrange, laughing at her and 
> taunting her ("Come on, you can do better than that"), it struck 
me 
> as more than sheer rashness for which Sirius is infamous... I saw 
a 
> man with someting on the level of a "death-wish."

[snip]

I was just going over this last night and it dawned on me that while 
part of Sirius' death (BTW, am I the *ONLY* person not despairing 
over his death?) was caused by his desire to save his godson...it 
really seems to me to be more of a "suicide-by-Death-Eater." I 
believe SB was in a serious tailspin, depression-wise, and would 
have possibly been suicidal.

Seeing this snippet just made the whole thing jell in my mind.

-Joe in SoFla