Sirius' death (was: Dept of Mysteries Veil Room)

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No: HPFGUIDX 114837


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Nora Renka" <nrenka at y...> wrote:
> 
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
> <justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > Carol, who thinks that learning to cope with Sirius's death is an
> > important lesson for Harry, much more important than any 
> > contribution the living Sirius made or could have made in helping 
> > him grow up
> 
> Wow.  I think that's one of the *coldest* things I've seen anyone 
> post on here lately.  Learning to deal with the death of the person 
> he loved more than anyone (note, who Harry loved, regardless of how 
> we feel about the character) is more important or beneficial than, 
> perhaps, learning what it's like to build a relationship of trust and 
> love, even when the person in question *is* unquestionably damaged?  
> It's better to just say 'Oops, well, he was quite a mess, wasn't it?  
> Better for everyone not to have to deal with him!' than to go through 
> the more difficult *yet* ultimately more constructive project of 
> trying to rebuild a damaged soul, of trying to deal with things and 
> not make them go away?
> 

"Killer' Rowling had something to say about that - Albert Hall 2003,

"I do  think that what I was trying to do with the death in this book
was to show how arbitrary death is. This is a death where you didn't
get a death-bed scene, it happens almost accidentally and that is
one of the cruel things about death. And of course they are in a war
situation where that really does happen - one minute you're  talking
to a friend and the next minute he's gone. And it's so shocking and
inexplicable - but where did they go? I found it upsetting to write
because I knew what it would mean to Harry who briefly" (Steven
Fry interrupts at this point.)

Realism in fantasy. No fluffiness here.
So Sirius goes and Harry is going to have to learn to deal with it.
Remember, she has said before that one of the main themes of the 
books is death. 

I wonder who'll  be next for the arbitrary Black Spot?

Kneasy