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

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Naama:
> 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). 

Marianne:

I hope you're right and Harry doesn't simply bounce back, 
emotionally battered, but still struggling valiantly onward. If 
it ties into his relationship with Snape, so much the better.  I 
really have to read OoP again, but my lingering feeling is that Harry's blame of Snape and lack of recognition of the part he 
himself played in Sirius' death may be a matter of the events 
still being too recent and raw for him to have developed any perspective yet.  Or be able to examine his own actions.  

Naama:
> 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. 

Marianne:
I see your point, and it makes me wonder if Harry's struggle (or 
one of them) in sixth year will be an attempt to completely stifle his grief and rage because he believes that he needs to be in total 
control of his emotions in order to be at his strongest against 
Voldemort. And if Snape winds him up just a bit too far, perhaps 
we'll see the mother of all CAPLOCKS!HARRY.  

Marianne