Sirius quite capable -Harry, James, & Sirius

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No: HPFGUIDX 84133

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> 
> 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

Unless, of course, Sirius turns out not to have been the paragon of
virtue that  many posters see  him  as.

There was a spate of posts a few  months back where an awful lot
of posters seemed to be suffering from Animagitis - almost every
individual in the books  was considered as a possible unregistered
Animagus by somebody or other.

I pointed out  at the time that JKR didn't seem to like unregistered
Animagi very much. We've been introduced to four and all of them
are treated unsympathetically:
James - dead and revealed as not so  nice after all
Peter - a traitor and now Igor  to  the chief baddy
Rita -  a gutter journalist, punished by Hermione (JKR's alter ego)
Sirius - dead and...is there another shoe to drop?

Lots of plot twists in the books to date; I'd not be  surprised if
Sirius constituted another.

His unexpected demise plus Harry's reaction would  be a prime
counterpoint to  startling  revelations indicating that he was
not what he seemed. 

Why knock him off in Book 5 of seven? The suggestion that this
somehow enhances Harry's passage into emotional maturity is
post facto rationalisation IMO. Fans were having great difficulty in
coming up  with  a good plot line justifying it and so descended
into pop psychology to find an acceptable reason.

But just suppose that there is a plot line to his death and that his
disappearance makes Harry  safer....

Kneasy
Who  can hear the screams of outrage already.