Harry, Hermione, Sirius, and the Dream (was : What should Harry REALLY feel ...)

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 116788


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "delwynmarch" 
<delwynmarch at y...> wrote:
snip
> Del :
> You put the finger on something important there.
> 1. Harry values Sirius over Hermione. She's been there for him for 
5
> years, she's helped him faithfully, she's given him tons of sound
> advice, she's never deserted him. But because she happens to 
mistrust
> Sirius (with some good reason too), all of those things don't 
matter
> anymore when it comes to Sirius. She's just biased, she just 
doesn't
> like Sirius. Except that in this case, it was never about Sirius in
> Hermione's mind, but about LV.

Meri now: I don't think that Harry values Sirius over Hermione, 
their relationships are just different. Hermione is like Ron, his 
friend, his peer and his equal in many ways. To Harry, rightly or 
wrongly, Sirius is an adult, a parental figure and someone with more 
experience (like he admits to himself almost ashemedly in the 
begining of GoF). Sirius is also one of the only remaining links 
that Harry has with his mum and dad, and, again rightly or wrongly, 
had begun to see him, as DD puts it, as a mixture of father, older 
brother and such. Hermione is always good for advice, yes, but when 
the one man that Harry has ever loved as a father is in danger, 
rational advice isn't something that's going to help him, especially 
in the state of mind that he was in in Order. 

Also, I think Sirius cares very much for Harry's safety. Just 
witness how worried and upset he was during the whole Triwizard 
Tournament. But again you must take into account Sirius' state of 
mind in Order. He left Harry at the end of GoF to help the 
resistance movement, but against his wishes he was confined in his 
house and made to feel useless, something that a personality like 
his is bound to hate. Encouraging a little rebellion in Harry is, 
once again right or wrong, firmly in character. While I agree that 
Hermione was right to look at Sirius' motives with a bit of 
sketpicism, she was wrong to bring up the "saving people thing" and 
she was wrong to try and convince Harry that he was dreaming when 
there was no evidence that he was. After all his last vision had 
been dead right. 
Meri