Liability for Sirius' death

[Christina in GA]

No: HPFGUIDX 100855

I find myself not wanting to blame Harry but all the arguments blaming him,
DD, Snape, and everyone else make a lot of sense to me. Ds10 and I are at
the end of the book just after Sirius has died - which shocked ds10 as I
hadn't told him about it - and I remember one part where McNair has Harry in
a chokehold. Harry is looking around at everyone else fighting and the books
says "No one sees he is dying". The books are Harry's POV and even though
everyone else there is fighting the DEs for him he's still thinking about
himself. Harry is very angry and upset in this book. He's still dealing with
Cedric's death and LV coming back. Hardly anyone believes him. DD won't talk
to him and no one will tell him anything. Yes, Snape did tell him why he
needed the Occulumency, and I don't remember one class period where Snape
used the memories of the dog or being pushed into the toilets against him.
But Harry didn't listen even to Hermione, why would he listen to Snape when
he's been dogging him from the beginning?

I also wondered after the mention of Sirius' gift turned up. I had even
forgotten about that. Why didn't Sirius mention it to Harry during one of
the fire talks?

Christina in GA (USA)