[HPforGrownups] Re: Dumbledore on the Dursleys in OotP (LONG)

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 151588

 
In a message dated 4/27/2006 2:20:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
midnightowl6 at hotmail.com writes:

Sherry:
> 
> I had never thought of it that way, but now  you've got me going.  
You are
> absolutely correct, I  think.  

PJ:
I don't honestly know if I'm right or not because  I can't mesh what 
JKR says in her interview (she cried when she had to  kill him off) 
and what she writes in her books.   



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Sherrie here:
 
Oddly, I just recently had this discussion with a friend, having just lost  
my aunt/godmother, and he having just found out that his father has only a  
couple of years to live.  Perhaps JKR wasn't weeping for Sirius, but  for Harry - 
knowing the effect that losing Sirius would have on him.  After  all, when we 
cry at funerals, we're not crying for the deceased, really - we're  crying 
for ourselves, because we've lost them.  
 
Like an old Lakota death song I learned ages ago: "Father, I am going to  
die./For myself I grieve not/But for those who are left behind."
 
Sherrie


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