Is Harry an idiot because he thinks Snape is guilty/Harry's grief for Sirius

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No: HPFGUIDX 140653


Lupinlore:
<HUGE snip>
 I don't see, barring 
> breathtakingly bad writing on JKR's part (which she has, 
> unfortunately, proved herself capable of with such, err, stuff, 
> as "Sirius wouldn't want me to brood so I won't" and "Mary 
Jane ... I 
> mean Ginny ... I have to go fight Doc Ock ... I mean Voldemort ... 
> first") how a slight nudge followed by rethinking of the tower 
scene 
> could ever do the trick.

Alla:


I agree with you completely that only very big and solid evidence 
could make Harry change his mind about Tower, therefore I snipped it 
completely. :-)

What I have to disagree with you on is the side issue - I think JKR 
handled Harry's grief for Sirius not just well, but superbly.

Subtle grieving does not become any less intense because it is 
subtle, IMO.

Harry was not eating when he was at Dursleys, he does not want to 
talk about Sirius with his friends, he is having trouble talking to 
Tonks, he lashes at Fletcher when he learns about selling Sirius' 
stuff and then remembers that Sirius hated then anyway.

I loved it, absolutely loved it.

As to Harry's trying to be a hero for Sirius' sake, well that is who 
Harry is, IMo. He is a hero, so it makes sense that he tries to 
behave like one ( luckily it does not happen all the time, otherwise 
his charm of normal boy,who is also a hero would be sort of lost on 
me :-)



Lupinlore:
 Oh, and I don't think Snape's patronus would 
> be of any help in this situation. McGonagall, Lupin, Hagrid, and 
> others would already be familiar with it, and nothing about it 
caused 
> them to go "Oh no, Harry, Snape couldn't have killed Dumbledore.  
You 
> see his patronus proves that's impossible."


Alla:

That I am with you 100%. They all know his Patronus and  they still 
turn on him in a minute. I somehow doubt that they would have done 
so if Snape Patronus had any relation to Dumbledore.
I definitely read that scene with the certain amount of glee. :-)

JMO of course,

Alla.