Why it was necessary: the HP/N,F,AL/SB/BL connection

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "quigonginger"
<quigonginger at y...> wrote:  <<much snippage>>

Why, as many have asked, did Sirius have to die?  

> Here's my theory:  Harry and Neville need to become closer than 
> before.  For some reason, perhaps the Prophecy, they will need to be 
> at each other's side more than ever.  The connection is Bellatrix.  
> She tortured Frank and Alice.  She killed Sirius.  She has cost both 
> boys the love of the people closest to them.  She has caused them 
> great pain. <snip>
> Now that they have this common bond, and are free to talk about it, I 
> feel that they will become closer and better unified to fight not 
> only Bellatrix, but her master as well.  Bellatrix is the catalyst.
> 
> And that's why I think it was all necessary.
> 
> Fire away! Ginger



I think this theory makes a lot of sense.  My problem with Sirius all
along has not been so much "why did he have to die?" but, rather "why
did he have to be?"  What I mean by this is, although his presence
played an important role in the theme of Book 3, it was fairly
needless in Books 4 and 5.  

Other than being little more than a shadow for Harry to pin much of
his future hopes and wishes on, Sirius's character was never developed
in any satisfactory way. Much of the things he was used for
(substitute father figure, link to James) could have been written into
other characters who were already in Harry's life (Dumbledore, or
Lupin, perhaps). Sirius never really developed into a
three-dimensional character for me, and it quite irked me that JKR
wasted three books' worth of time just to have him die without really
fleshing him out.  

However, your theory really makes some sense.  It puts things in a
different perspective, which brings me back to my original question:
"why did he have to be?".  The answer is, "he had to be, so that he
could die." And, as you have written, the reason for his death may be
to solidify the bond between Harry and Neville.  Good work.

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