[HPforGrownups] The importance of death

[Karen Chuplis]

No: HPFGUIDX 147258


On Sunday, January 29, 2006, at 05:04 PM, lupinlore wrote:

> That is probably part of the problem I have with OOTP and GoF.  I
> just don't buy that Harry would be so affected by the death of a
> classmate he hardly knew, for one thing.  True, there are a lot of
> other circumstances surrounding that death that were traumatic, and
> which I could see affecting Harry in the way she displayed, but those
> aren't the things dwelled on in OOTP.  Rather it is the fact of
> Cedric's death, which, considering that Harry had already been the
> instrument of the death of Quirrel, hardly seemed cause for such
> emotional overkill.  And then she turns around and shows Harry hardly
> being affected by the death of a man around whom most of his familial
> fantasies revolved.  Illogical and unbelievable, all things
> considered.
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kchuplis:

Harry is "hardly affected at all" by Sirius' death? You've read a 
different book than I. It's at the basis of all of Harry's actions in 
Book 6. I also feel that it is both the trauma of seeing Cedric, who is 
killed because of Harry (Harry believes, and I suppose is basically 
true). I never felt that he felt a personal devastation over Cedric but 
more of a traumatic one, indeed, linked to the entire extremely 
tortuous experience. I just don't see how he wouldn't eternally connect 
all of that together.




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