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

[Karen]

No: HPFGUIDX 147403


On Tuesday, January 31, 2006, at 09:56 PM, Magpie wrote:

> 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.
>
>
Karen:

I understand that is Lupinlore's take, I'm just saying that it rings 
true with a lot of us so it really can't be that badly done. I really 
don't think we are squeezing our life experience around to fit the 
book. The book portrayal fits what we know. Lupinlore's experience of 
grief is obviously different. I'm just saying if I saw a lot of moaning 
and agonizing with Sirius death (after the initial angry DD office 
scene) I would have found that *highly* melodramatic and it would have 
put me off and I would feel it was ooc for Harry.

I'm just not seeing what it is Lupinlore expected of Harry after 
Sirius' death.  I still don't get the references to Kreacher, as I 
don't think Harry *wants* Kreacher in any way shape of form, but he 
can't free him because of everything he's been privvy to. It isn't even 
something Harry thought about previously.  What  was Harry supposed to 
do?

Just looking for what Lupinlore was expecting now as obviously it is 
not what was written ( I really think the character is written well. 
I'm beginning to feel that those of us who are saying the grief works 
are being thought of as being "fanboys".)