Managing Dead Sirius

[va32h]

No: HPFGUIDX 142637

> Lucianam writes:
"Not that I ever understood JKR's take on Sirius. She practically had
him star two books - PoA and OotP - and now she's practically
ignored his death in HBP. Sirius's appearances in the HP series have
been sort like a rollercoaster."

va32h:
I have just been perusing Madam Scoop's and came across an interview 
where JKR mentions that Sirius' death was a "battlefield death". 

That comment and Lucianam's comments above gelled with something my 
husband told me when he returned from Iraq last spring. 

He spoke of meeting people and forging strong bonds with them in a 
very short period of time - because you were alone and needed to trust 
and depend on relative strangers for your very life. Then this person, 
with whom you had been so close, would simply be gone - sent home, 
sent to another unit, or killed, seemingly at random. 

There is just no time for closure - the war goes on, a fresh batch of 
soliders arrives, and one must form the same connections and bonds 
with new people. 

So with all this in mind, I now see Harry and Sirius as "battlefield 
brothers" brought together for this war. Perhaps many years from now 
Harry, like many veterans, will start to truly mourn for those he has 
lost. 

va32h