Harry getting to GP by floo / thestrals (was Re: Good Writing)

[tylerswaxlion]

No: HPFGUIDX 110933

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "humantupperware1" 
<humantupperware1 at y...> wrote:

> HumanTupperware: (who is rather overwhelmed by the length of those 
> depression posts.......)
> 
> I've been watching this thread for a little while, and I have a 
couple of 
> thoughts: 
 
> But this is where my major point comes in....he DIDN"T THINK!!!!  
IMHO, I 
> think the whole point of this Sirius/Harry/MOM mess is that Harry 
behaved in 
> an impetuous, rash headed manner, and managed to cause the death 
of the 
> only person close to being family that he had. I think the point 
of this chapter is to point out to us that Harry is far from 
omnipotent, he doesn't have all the answers, he doesn't know 
everything, and through being passionate and reckless, everything 
goes pear shaped. 


I've always been struck by the fact that Harry had a magic mirror 
tht could have let him talk to Sirius.  Yes, it was in his trunk and 
he was refusing to open it to protect Sirius, but if he *had* used 
it, Sirius wouldn't be dead.

I love "the sneaking into Umbridge's office to use the fireplace" 
scenario, but Sirius should have asked Harry why he didn't just use 
the mirror.  Harry didn't know about it, but SIRIUS did.  

On one hand, it feels to me like bad plotting--he didn't open the 
package and Sirius didn't fill him in on the package b/c then Harry 
wouldn't have had to use Umbridge's office and wouldn't have talked 
to Kreacher.

On the other, it makes Sirius' loss more painful.  It didn't have to 
happen, and Harry's mistake in not trusting Sirius is to blame.  And 
when he tries to contact Sirius after the Veil...that's just heart-
wrenching.

Harry didn't just act rashly at the end, charging into the MoM (like 
a good Griffyndor) he acted rashly in trying to protect his 
godfather, an adult who really did know better in this circumstance.

Tyler's Lion