How Sirius' death suits Dumbledore? Was: Re : Harry's Role in OotP (long)

[dumbledore11214]

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> > Alla:
 
I am honestly confused as to how Sirius' death suits Dumbledore 
> 

Magda:

<SNIP> 
> Well, for one thing, it would mean that Dumbledore wouldn't have to
worry about Harry turning himself into James-the-sequel in order to
give Sirius back the best years of his life, namely the Hogwarts
years.  The number of times in both GoF and OOTP when Harry 
swallowed his fears or his real feelings in some way so that Sirius 
wouldn't do something Harry considered rash indicates to me that 
Harry was stifling his own personality out of deference to his 
godfather.
 
Had Harry continued to develop a relationship with Sirius and had
they become closer, then I think there was a real danger of that
happening and Dumbledore knew it.  A dead Sirius can be safely
praised and ignored; the live one was always in danger of coming up
with yet another brilliant plan like the one that cost James and Lily
their lives.  That kind of initiative Dumbledore does NOT need this
time around.


Alla:

I think I am confused again. Am I understanding you correctly that 
your argument is that Sirius' death suits Dumbledore in essense 
because Harry will be a better person without Sirius and/or he will  
be simply safer with Sirius dead?

If this is indeed the gist of your argument , I would like to 
comment that essentially what Sirius wanted for Harry ( despite all 
his emotional unstability) in OOP, turned out to be the right thing 
for Harry after all.

Namely, Sirius wanted to give Harry ALL information about Prophecy 
and Dumbledore admitted at the end that he indeed was wrong in not 
giving Harry that information.

I tend to think that even being so depressed during OOP, Sirius 
realised  what is best for Harry, which to me speaks volumes.

I mean sure he made mistakes, but I do think that if he would 
survive the war and managed to continue relationship with Harry, it 
would have done both of them lots of good.


One more thing , about Sirius coming up with brilliant plan, which 
cost Lily and James their lives. I am sure that was raised before 
but from what little I know about Lily so far, I don't consider her 
to be stupid, rash or impulsive and she seemed to agree to that 
plan. Maybe  there were some merits to it after all.


Just my opinion,

Alla.