Will Harry recover too fast? (was Re: What would disappoint you about HBP?

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kiricat4001" <zarleycat at s...> 
wrote:
> 
> "lupinlore" :
> > What would disappoint you should it happen/not happen in HBP?  
> > My list includes:
> > 
> > 1) Harry recovering too quickly and easily from the various 
> > things that have happened.  Also Harry forgiving various people 
> > for various things too easily.
> 
> Marianne:
> 
> Although it would disappoint me, too, I wouldn't be surprised, if 
> this is exactly what happens.  Until the appearance of CAPLOCKS!
> HARRY, he'd always shown an amazing resiliency to the disturbances 
> in his life.  I had the sneaking feeling that JKR already sent 
Harry 
> through an abbreviated version of the stages of grief at the end 
of 
> OoP with regards to Sirius' death.  He showed denial when 
struggling 
> with Remus in front of the veil, anger when exploding in DD's 
> office, bargaining with the idea that he could deal with the death 
> if Sirius would come back as a ghost.  And, that walk from the 
train 
> station seemed to symbolize an acceptance of the position of 
> leadership, and in having to go forward to face the future.  I'm 
> missing the fourth stage here (I always forget that one!)  

My feeling is that the opposite will happen - that HBP, as far as 
Harry's emotional development goes, will be dominated by Sirius' 
death. At the end of OoP, Harry is left with a huge baggage that he 
has just taken the first step to deal with (the first step being 
starting to grieve - with Luna's help). 
Harry hasn't accepted reasonable responsibility to Sirius' death - 
the guilt is so unbearable to him right now, that he projects it on 
Snape (that's how I understand it, anyway). That's a huge deal - 
consciously, he blames Snape of the death of the most important 
person in the world to him. That has to blow up at some point - and 
very dramatically (if not tragically). 
Although you point to some steps that Harry has taken in dealing 
with Sirius' death, they are mostly about getting over the denial - 
that Sirius can somehow be gotten back, that it didn't really 
happen. Harry has reached the point where he accepts, emotionally, 
Sirius' death - now there's tons of grief and rage for him to go 
through. 
If you look at OoP structurally, it never really strays far from 
what happened in the graveyard, Voldemort's resurrection. So much of 
what Harry feels and does and goes through is linked, directly and 
indirectly to that. I think that if JKR did this in OoP, she will 
treat the no-less traumatic (in a different way) death of Sirius 
just as seriously in HBP.


Naama