OOP: the point of the death?

[elizabeth1603]

No: HPFGUIDX 64628

Dicentra:
> Looking for plot-based reasons (at least within OoP) might not yield
> much.  However, I agree with Marina: it's going to drive Harry over 
or at least near the edge of Darkness.  

Me:

I think one of the things Sirius's death did was to bring Harry even 
more into the battle. I know he's already pretty well involved because
Voldemort killed his parents and now keeps going after Harry, but 
Harry has been, until now, dragged into the fight. Harry is, of 
course, very angry that Voldemort took his family away from him, but 
he cannot remember what it was like to have his family around or the 
the moment of the murder. He did, however, grow to love Sirius, and 
he watched Voldemort's followers take Sirius away from him. He now 
has every motivation to go after Voldemort and the Death Eaters and 
fullfill the prophecy.

I'm not saying the murder of his parents wasn't enough motivation. 
Perhaps Sirius's death gave him the extra anger he needed to go out 
and fight.

Elli