[HPforGrownups] Re: Who stuns Sirius? & Fake Death (was Re: The Veil)

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 111229

> Of course, we will all immediately forgive JKR the instant Sirius
> waltzes on from stage right.
> 
> ~<(Laurasia)>~


I certainly won't forgive her.  I think it would be terrible to bring
Sirius back.  In addition to completely throwing away Harry's grief
at the end of OOTP and his feeling of being alone as he faces his
apparent destiny, it would serve no purpose plot-wise. 

Harry always felt closest to Sirius when he was farthest away - and
usually incommunicado.  Whenever he was with his godfather, there
were always other people around or they were prevented from talking
together (like when Molly kept him de-doxying drapes when he could
have been asking Sirius about his parents).  Once once - in GoF when
they talked in the fireplace about the dragon task in the Triwizard
Tournament - did Harry and Sirius ever really do that male bonding
thing.  They had an owl-post relationship, and it's what Sirius
represented to Harry that he will miss.

Sirius represented both the past (a link to his parents) and the
future (a home away from the Dursleys, having a surrogate
parent/brother when he left school) to Harry.  The loss of Sirius was
a door slamming on that imaginary future and that not-explored past. 
For Sirius to come back in the future would be pointless.  His role
in the series was to hold out tantalizing hope for Harry - and then
have it snatched away.

And really, it's not like he was really a good influence on Harry
when he was around.  His immediate response of "I'll be right there!"
 whenever Harry communicated with him did nothing but add to Harry's
stress level in both GOF and OOOTP.  Like Harry needs MORE stress in
his life.  Sirius was incapable of setting aside his own feelings
about Snape, abuot Kreacher, about the past to really be there for
Harry the way Harry needed.  It would have been Harry who was the
older brother in that relationship, I think.

Magda



		
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