Sirius quite capable -Harry, James, & Sirius

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 84132

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kiricat2001" <Zarleycat at a...>
wrote:

> Marianne:
>
> ... Sirius confuses Harry with James might not have something to do 
> with how Sirius is trying to relate to teenaged Harry.  ... perhaps 
> Sirius draws from his experiences with teenage James, ..., because 
> that seems like a logical frame-of-reference to him. And, since in 
> some ways Harry is like James, that image is reinforced for Sirius.  
> When Harry doesn't act like James, Sirius feels a certain 
> dissonance.  ...
> 
> Marianne


bboy_mn:

I think you are very much on the right track here. JAMES is the key,
he is the foundation of the common bond between Harry and Sirius. To
Harry, Sirius is the closest link in this world to his father James,
and to Sirius, Harry is the closest living thing to James. Being close
to each other is a way for both of them to be closer to James, to have
a piece of James in their life. 

Plus there is a very big 'GUY' factor involved here. As sweet loving
and wonderful as Molly is, she's not a guy. She just doesn't
understand guy things like Quidditch, standing up for yourself and
being a man, and the enchanting Siren's call of adventure and
discovery,. You know typical guys stuff.

Arthur does understand this to some extent, but not like Sirius does.
Arthur is staddled with responsibility and commitment. He no longer
has the independant and adventurous spirit of youth. That's something
that Sirius still has, and very much understands.

There are things that Sirius could have done for Harry and things he
could have been for Harry that just do not have any substitute in any
other person. I think guys like Arthur and Remus will be very good
friends and guides for Harry, but never to the extent that Sirius could.

Just before the book came out we were all predicting who would die,
and I wrote a long post saying that the one person who would NOT die
was Sirius, because Harry needed him too much. He was far to important
to Harry to be killed off. 

That should have been my clue, that he was the one not least likely,
but most likely to be killed off. I many prior discussions of who may
or may not be die, I said repeatedly we should look for someone who
moves to the forground, someone who, in doing so, gains our sympathy,
someone who becomes endearing to us, and once we are emotionally
hooked this person, BANG, they are cannon fodder. I guess I should
have paid more attention to my own posts.

Even now I find it hard to believe that Sirius is dead. I do, however,
accept that JKR has killed him, and he is dead and gone from this
earth for ever. Although, I still hold that he will come back into the
story in a significant way, but not in a physical or ghostly way. 

The reason I find it so hard to believe that he is dead, is that there
is nothing and no one left in the story who can ever possible come
close to filling that hole and that role in Harry's life. That's a
huge irreplacable emptiness. It's going to be a horrible, nearly 
impossible loss for both Harry and the story to reconcile.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn