Harry's Role in OotP (long) (was:Re: "Some won't like it"...)

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Eileen Nicholson 

> On balance, Sirius' death suits DD: He got Harry away from the
'danger' of being brought up by his nominated guardian by getting
Hagrid to deliver him to Privet Drive and the Dursleys only to have
him back on his hands after Peter Pettigrew returns to VM, and with
increasing influence on Harry. Sirius vindicated and guardian of Harry
is still very much a threat to DD's plans; Sirius loved and dead is a
very important part of the process of turning Harry into a weapon for
the Order against VM.  

Gerry
There has been a lot of comment on your post, so I will not repeat
others and just post my own unmentioned disagreements : )

First: Sirius was Harry's godfather, not his nominated guardian. So
there was no danger at all that Sirius would have been able to raise
baby Harry, as he was not a relative. 

Why would Sirius vindicated be a danger to DD's plans? Harry is not
being turned into a weapon for the order against LV. Harry has quite a
strong inner motivation in wanting to fight LV. The man killed his
parents and tried to kill him. Not only as a baby but a few times
later as well. And Harry knows he will try to kill him again. Sirius
has nothing to do with it. 

The order's main purpose for the moment is keeping Harry long enough
alive to give him a chance to defeat LV. Up til now he has been lucky,
but his luck has to go sour only once and the order will have a dead
Harry on its hands. Sirius death is actually bad for Harry. Again he
lost someone. He now has anger, hate and grief to deal with. If he
comes out all right, leaves the anger and the hate behind, he will be
a stronger person for it. If he does not, he will be weaker. Now some
Machiavellian like character may like the idea of focussing that anger
and hate against LV and thus create a 'weapon' for the order, but as I
pointed out, there is no need for that, and even if DD were this kind
of person, this is an extremely dangerous strategy that can easily go
wrong. 

Now Harry living with Sirius from his third year onward could have
been a problem, because of the blood protection. But that could easily
have been solved. Ofcourse DD would have had to explain this bit to
Harry and Sirius, but it would have been easily possible to work out a
compromise where Privit Drive would still be his home, and he would
also have spent time with Sirius until he would have come of age. 

Gerry