OOP:Death--Point or Pointless?

[susanbones2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 64896

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sharonlibrarian" 
<sharonlibrarian at y...> wrote:
> The thing that has been bugging me about the death of Sirius is 
that it cancels out almost all the good things that happened in PoA.  
PoA remains my favorite HP book, and I think a lot of people agree 
with me.  And JKR herself [in some interview, don't remember which] 
said that PoA is her favorite, partly due to the introduction of 
Sirius.
> 
> But all of those wonderful things that made PoA special, 
particularly 
> Harry and Hermione saving Sirius from the dementor's kiss, seem 
> cancelled out now.  Sure, Sirus got to live for two more years, but 
> he lived as a fugitive whose name was not cleared, and so much is 
> still unresolved.  And, as you say, Lisa, his death was presented 
as 
> such an "almost non-event."  Cedric was largely just an 
acquaintance, 
> of ours and of Harry's.  But Sirius was in our hearts.
>> The more I think about it, there has got to be more to this.  If 
> there is not, it is, indeed, disappointing.  I like to think that 
JKR> would not leave this event as-is. 
> Guess I could rant more, but I'll stop.
> 
> Sharon

The negation of POA and all the goodness and hope it instilled in the 
reader is possibly the worst result of OOP. I know I am emotionally 
overwrought right now but I just couldn't bring myself to read POA 
again. Maybe in the future, I certainly hope but I don't count on it. 
But it is JKR's ruthless ability to tell a story that makes me think 
while Harry may ponder Sirius' death, talk to others in a meaningful 
way (eventually)and probably dream about it, that it will remain the 
flat awful heart-breaking imponderable that it is at this moment. She 
never gives us what our melodramatic hearts long for and that is why 
we love her. She can do all this to us in one book and we (at least 
the stouter hearted ones...) are already theorizing about the next. 
That's genius.
JenD
-feeling a little better, but not much.