OOP: the point of the death?

[maneelyfh]

No: HPFGUIDX 64855

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "elspeth_orange" <cyn at t...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jenny_ravenclaw" <
> meboriqua at a...> wrote:
> 
> > That's it!  Sirius did not die because Harry needed 
> > to learn a lesson about death - he deals with death 
> > every single day as a kid with no parents.  Sirius 
> > also did not die so Harry would be angrier at 
> > Voldemort - how much angrier can Harry get?
> > 
><snip>> 
>> 
> while i was blindly moping about Sirius' death and the gaping 
> hole it would clearly leave in poor Harry's abused psyche, it 
didn't 
> fully occur to me that Dumbledore essentially lays it all out for 
us 
> in Ch. 37, where he says outright that Harry's pain is his greatest 
> strength.  similarly, when he's pelting off without presence of 
> forethought, it is too his greatest weakness.  of course it sounds 
> at first to be horribly placating, but getting a grip on his out of 
> control emotions has to be, as you say, the only way he'll begin 
> to realize his power.  i never really thought of it that way 'til
> now.  
> wahoo. 
> 
><snip>
> ~elspeth.

Another thought....
One reason I like Harry so much is he alot like me...HARDHEADED. He 
learns lessons the hard way which does not make for an easy life.  
When we are stressed out, and emotionally upset, we do not make good 
choices or decisions.  And look at what he was dealing with this year.
fhm