Sirius's Future/Death

[Brianna HP]

No: HPFGUIDX 118036


> Lissa:
> I think there were very good reasons Sirius had to
> die, most of which relate to Harry and not Sirius. 
> One possibility is Harry needs the fresh grief to
> spur him on.  Fighting Voldie isn't going to be
> easy, and I think it's more believable and doable
> when Voldie's taken people Harry loves- and can
> remember!- from him.  Harry needs to be pushed to
> the edge.  The other thing I keep seeing is an
> alienation or removal of the adults.  I mean,
> Harry's parents are dead, Molly's pushing Harry away
> with her overprotectiveness, Dumbledore distanced
> himself, Hagrid's involved with the Order and Madame
> Maxime... and the only thing that could keep Sirius
> from Harry's side is death.  If I'm right about the
> adult thing being important, Sirius needs to die for
> some reason relevant to Harry's development.


Lissa, 

I've posted in response to your view elsewhere. I'll
try and explain it again. 

Part of the issue for me is that people say "it's just
a story."  So, that means it is okay to manipulate the
characters without thought or a sense of justice,
never mind what it does to the reader. 

If as a writer though, you understand that a story is
much more than the words on a page, you know that you
must think of killing off a character as an act of
murder.  So, you better have a really good reason for
doing so. Psychological development of Harry just
doesn't cut it for me, and many of us. I think even JK
is saying it doesn't cut it for her and that there is
a plot development dependent on the veil incident.  

  From my view of looking at this as a next generation
inklings writing, I can't see where  killing off
Sirius fits in. I can see something miraculous coming
out of it. Now, that would fit in and contribute to
plot development. 

  As a whole, I see almost every incident in these
books as contributing to the forward movement of the
story. Even while PoA dealt with psychology, these
book are to me action driven rather than psychological. 
At the very least, it is a really awful story, in my 
opinion, that kills off a character so someone can "grow 
up."  

"brianna_hp"