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

[justcarol67]

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michelle wrote:
> I am in perfect agreement with LupinLore here.  Harry was furious
and then suddenly he seems more annoyed with being Kreacher's master.    

Carol responds:

Perhaps there's a reasonable explanation: Harry's rage at Kreacher has
been transferred to a different target. 

Certainly Harry had good reason to place a large share of the blame
for Sirius Black's death on Kreacher, who plotted with the Malfoys to
injure Kreacher and make sure that Black was out of sight if Harry
tried to check on him. He has even more reason to blame Kreacher's
beloved "Miss Bellatrix," who actually murdered "the Animagus Black,"
and he feels guilty because Black would not have died at all if he,
Harry, had not been lured to the MoM though he seems to have trouble
admitting this fact to himself. (I can find quotes to support this
assertion if needed.)

By the time Kreacher is "conjured" or summoned by Dumbledore to the
Dursleys, Harry has transferred all of this rage and his own repressed
guilt onto a convenient scapegoat, Snape, as we see in OoP and again
in "Snape Triumphant." So Kreacher, for better or worse, is off the
hook--at least for now. Harry doesn't like him, and the feeling is
mutual (Kreacher's loyalty is to Harry's godfather's murderer), but
Harry, IMO, has no hatred to spare for a house-elf. He's too busy
hating Snape. He's annoyed at first at being Kreacher's master, but he
understands the necessity of keeping Kreacher at Hogwarts, away from
Grimmauld Place and from the Malfoy manor.

As for Harry's willingness to have a house-elf as his slave, mentioned
earlier in this thread, I suppose he's so used to Dobby's servile
obedience and doting adoration that he doesn't give a second thought
to ordering a fellow being to do his will, especially one as dangerous
and devious as Kreacher, who is still capable of doing great harm to a
hated master. And neither Harry nor Ron (nor I) ever had much use for
SPEW.

Carol, expecting to see more of Kreacher in Book 7, perhaps in
connection with the locket Horcrux