Sirius' death

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 127707


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Katrina" <katrinabarnard at y...>
wrote:
> 
> Right here goes, I think I might be unpopular after this and I 
> accept that I have little right to criticise as I am a student 
> and not an author but... I thought that Sirius's death was lame. 
> 
> -Pause while you gasp with shock-
> 
> I mean he was Harry's mentor/surrogate father/best friend and a key 
> character (I thought) for the future books and instead of dying 
> bravely in battle he falls through a doorway!
> 
> I can hypothesise that JK may have been trying to demonstrate the 
> frailty of life or how the dead are still close to us. But I feel 
> that it could have been expressed in a more dramatic and fitting 
> way.

But in many ways JKR's was more realistic.  Death is often senseless -
one minute your loved one or friend is healthy and alongside you and
the next he's gone.

Death in battle isn't always glorious.

Jim Ferer