The importance of death /Harry and Cedric

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 147296

Lupinlore:

> <Shrug>  To me [Harry's grief over Sirius] 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?"

Pippin:

Scarely three weeks was probably long enough for Harry to decide
that all the blame belonged with Snape. 


"Whatever Dumbledore said, Harry had had time to think over the
summer, and had concluded that Snape's snide remarks to Sirius
about remaining safely hidden while the rest of the Order of the
Phoenix were off fighting Voldemort had probably been a powerful
factor in Sirius rushing off to the Ministry the night Sirius had
died." --HBP ch 8

Dwelling on Kreacher's role would have been far more
painful, because it was *Harry*, not Sirius, that Kreacher duped.
Implicit in blaming Kreacher is the acknowledgement  that Sirius went 
to the Ministry because Harry was there, and Harry does *not* want to 
think about that. Harry would much rather think that Sirius went
because  of Snape's goading.


Pippin