JKR's dealing with emotions - Talking about Death

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 147436

> Kemper now:
<SNIP>
> The problem with Harry's coping of Sirius' death isn't that long,
> Shakespearean soliloquies are absent from the text, it's that Harry 
isn't
> shown waking with a tear-soaked pillow or something similar to show 
the
> reader the depth of Harry's loss and how he was hurting silently.  
All JKR
> had to write was a short, simple sentence and it would have been
> clear.   But we didn't get that, we got some movie version of macho
> man-child, stiff upper-lip, "Sirius wouldn't want blahblah..." 
soliloquy
> that left the reader emotionally unsatisfied.

Alla:

Right, as I said I agree that if Harry's grief would have been only 
shown  in that one scene, I would have completely agreed that it was 
lame. I mean, I understand Harry's bravado, but IMO even if person 
tries one can barely be completely in control of one's grief. The 
flashes of pain will show up here and there, IMO only of course.

I also want to wave at Lupinlore and thank him for more detailed 
explanation, since I definitely understand where he is coming from 
now.

Some of the possibilities LL was talking about and what you just 
suggested are GREAT. I would not mind seeing them in the text AT ALL. 
I guess all I am saying that I was OK with how it was portrayed as is.
Not that I would have minded seeing more.



Kemper:
> Also lame, the Order's lack of a ritual goodbye for if not for 
them.  Or
> maybe they had one and Harry wasn't invited.  <SNIP> The reader has 
developed a
> relationship with Sirius that is hours long in the reading and even 
more so
> upon our ponderings of the text.  Harry had 2 years with Sirius and 
saw him
> as a mentor if not a father figure.  But after the death.... not 
much.
> Not even silent lamenting.  

Alla:

Agreed. I found the lack of goodbye for Sirius to be strange and 
rather annoying, but I keep hoping that it will somehow tie in with 
the that mysterious reason for Sirius' death, although I am unable to 
figure out how.

JMO,

Alla