Sirius' death

[deeby8658]

No: HPFGUIDX 127716



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!

Deeby:
Sorry if all this has been said before - haven't visited the list in 
a while - but I had always thought that JKR was referencing 
Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' here:

  O for thy voice to soothe and bless! 
    What hope of answer, or redress? 
Behind the veil, behind the veil.

I love this poem and felt that by quoting so closely from it JK was 
signposting the immense grief that Harry must suffer and was pointing 
us to the key lines that it is 'better to have loved and lost/ Than 
never to have loved at all'. Considering DD's comments on the DoM's 
most mysterious room, Jk seems to be saying that Love is the quality 
that Harry has in abundance. Interestingly too the poem talks of 
redress/revenge - perhaps Harry *needs* the death of Sirius 
psychologically to put him in the right place for the oncoming battle?

Just a thought 
Deeby