Sirius' death /Dumbledore's death

[dumbledore11214]

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> 
> Sherry now:
> 
> I had a completely opposite reaction.  oh my, Sirius murder was 
devastating to me.  <SNIP>

Alla:

Me too of course. :-)

Sherry:
> in fact, in an odd way, Dumbledore's death didn't get me as much.  
It was
> terrible in terms of shock value, but that was more because of how 
it
> happened, than the fact that it did happen.  after all, it was very 
much
> expected that Dumbledore would be the one to die in this book.
> 
> 

Alla:

I cannot believe that I finally found an issue I sort of disagree 
with you on. :-)

I did not expect Dumbledore's death to hit me hard, because as you 
said - it was pretty much expected that he will die in this book and 
because I was quite angry with him at the end of OOP, so I thought  
that no way I would be as upset as I was over Sirius' death. Boy, was 
I wrong.

JKR made me care for Dumbledore all over again in HBP. She made 
him "human" and what is the most important - I believed in it.

The fact that Dumbledore allowed himself to be close to Harry this 
book, to show Harry how much he loves the boy and admires him made 
all the difference to me.

I saw  the good man, struggling to help survive the boy whom he loves 
dearly and at the same time remembering that he has to fight for the 
whole WW too.

When Dumbledore was screaming after that potion I wanted to hug him, 
I wanted to help him when he was pleading with Snape and did I 
mention that I wanted to strangle Snape after he disposed of 
Dumbledore?

In my mind, I was hoping that Harry will bring Dumbledore's killer to 
justice, but of course I knew that there is one more book left.

So, yes, Dumbledore's death upset me just as much as Sirius' did and 
I WAS applauding JKR's talent for that.

JMO,

Alla