The importance of death /Harry and Cedric

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No: HPFGUIDX 147281

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Karen Chuplis <kchuplis at a...> 
wrote:
<SNIP>
> 
> Grief and Harry is a much more private thing. He has always fought 
> against a show of grief (it seems to me) in overt ways. It is more 
like 
> it is something SO big, he has no way to express it in words, so he 
> shuts down. I felt this was all very clear in JKR's writings.

<Shrug>  To me it was as clear as a pond full of mud with an oil 
slick on top of it.  CEDRIC causes such an explosion and Sirius 
doesn't?  Sorry, don't buy it.  And I especially don't buy it because 
of, of all beings, Kreacher.  At the end of OOTP Harry is, quite 
rightly, full of murderous fury toward Kreacher.  Then he becomes 
Kreacher's master scarcely three weeks later and his response 
is "Uhhh, okay?"

Sorry, that isn't private.  That's catatonic.


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