Lack of Memorial for Sirius (was Re: JKR's dealing with emotions)

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Juli:
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I can see Remus taking a more active role in Harry's 
> life. Perhaps even Harry will be the BestMan at his wedding? That 
> would be nice.

Alla: 
That would be nice, woudn't it? Another fond fantasy of mine is to 
see at least briefly in the epilogue Harry babysitting Remus and 
Tonks kids. You know many little cubs who can change colours at 
will :-)

Seriously though, I know that the odds of Harry's survival are 
50/50, but if he does survive ( keeping my fingers crossed), I don't 
think that he necessarily would be Frodo Potter. Basically, if we 
get alive Harry, I do see happy Harry eventually. :)
 
Juli:
> I agree that there should have been some sort of memorial service 
> for Sirius, but I think it would have been unwise to do so 
speaking 
> from  the security side of the whole thing: A memorial would 
include 
> all (or most) members of the OotP, people who are targeted by 
> Voldemort, and Harry would also be there. It would be a perfect 
> ocassion for an attack.
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Alla:

See, I don't think that security was  the reason, because if it was 
I see Dumbledore saying something to this effect to Harry in HBP. I 
hate to think that JKR simply did not think about it, so I keep 
believing that there was some reason for not doing it. Of course 
maybe you are right and it was for security reasons and JKR simply 
implied it. But I just don't see how that would be security breach 
for Order Members simply to get together and raise a fond toast to 
Sirius, as Steve said. You know, nothing formal, just group of 
friends acknowledging  the passing of another friend and fellow 
soldier. No, I hope that there was a reason for not doing it, 
otherwise it is annoying to me. IMO of course.


Juli:
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 So what's better, to keep Harry and Co And 
> the OoP alive, or to give Harry a chance to say goodbye?
> 

Alla:

Right, I don't think both tasks are necessarily mutually exclusive.

JMO of course,

Alla