JKR's dealing with emotions /Harry's grief over Sirius - realistic or not?

[festuco]

No: HPFGUIDX 147473

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Magpie" <belviso at ...> wrote:

> 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.
>
For me that was not true. I found them completely believable because
they stood apart. I can easily imagine grief working that way. You
don't want to think of it, you don't want to feel it and suddenly its
there, nothing you can do about it. And to make things clear: that is
not how grief is for me. I'm a very different kind of griever, very
extrovert, I wish I could keep some things more private, but my face
says everything. 

Gerry