[HPforGrownups] Re: JKR's dealing with emotions /Harry's grief over Sirius - realistic or not?

[Magpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 147399

lupinlore:
> Harry was furious with Kreacher at the end of OOTP.  Three weeks later, he 
> becomes Kreacher's master and his response is "uhhhh, okay."

Magpie:

I must say I found it very funny that Harry is now a slaveowner and Hermione 
says nothing about it that I remember, after two books of non-stop SPEW. 
Harry finds himself in the hospital wing, remembers Dobby, is inspired to 
get elves to trail Malfoy and calls...his slave.  As opposed to Dobby 
himself.

I just find it fascinating.  You know Kreacher's going to try to work 
against you.  You know you've got a self-proclaimed friend of a House Elf 
who would love to do it for you.  You'd think it would be weird ordering 
someone to do something as your slave.and that asking Kreacher might be 
particularly hard given his past.  I guess the main reason was so that JKR 
could have the two elves fighting but still, who would have thought after 
everything we'd seen that Harry would become a House Elf owner and actually 
take advantage of it.  Did he just feel bad imposing on his friend so 
thought he'd get his slave to do it against his will?

Karen:

Well, obviously nothing anyone says is going to enlighten you on this
score. None of these instances is are throw away lines. For some reason
you wanted to be told about Harry's grief rather than shown it. I know
for me that would have been MUCH more "please, eeeeasy stomach". Like
some second rate mellerdrama to be put on a summer stage and throw
popcorn at. I guess I prefer subtly to spectacle in this case.

Magpie:

Not to speak for Lupinlore but the sense I get is not that she wants lots of 
melodrama but that she didn't feel like a subtle handling of grief was 
worked in throughout the books. Thus these throwaway lines just stood apart 
from everything else instead of seeming like small signs of something that 
was going on all along within Harry when we were inside his head the whole 
book.

-m