[HPforGrownups] Re: The importance of death /Harry and Cedric

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 147300



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Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: The importance of death /Harry and Cedric


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.  

Sherry now:

Sorry, Lupinlore, I have to disagree as well, and you know, I almost always
agree with your take on things.  But being a very private griever, i felt
Harry's grief for Sirius was absolutely convincing.  When my dad died eight
years ago, if you didn't know me well, you might not have thought it touched
me much.  I never spoke of it, not even to my sister and brothers or my best
friends.  I still rarely speak of my dad.  alone, i spent many sleepless
nights, many agonizing aching days, doing my job, going about my life and
feeling totally torn apart inside.  But nobody would have known, and people
might even have said that I was taking it very well.  I was not.  That's how
I saw Harry's grief for Sirius.  Some things are too deep and painful to
explode over, and Harry is more the type to pull his sorrow into himself.

as for Harry's grief over Cedric, I think that was a combination of things.
i don't think it was just Cedric.  He'd been betrayed by someone he'd
trusted.  He'd see Voldemort return to his body, been tortured and mocked
and slashed with a knife; he'd seen the echoes of his parents; and Cedric's
only reason for being there was that he and Harry decided to take the
tri-wizard cup together.  On top of that, he had fudge's disbelief in the
hospital wing, and then the abrupt return to the Dursleys, where noone from
the WW bothered to keep in touch with news and information.  He felt
completely abandoned by everyone.  I think all of that put together is why
his grief over Cedric seems so out of proportion when compared to his grief
for Sirius.  But that grief for Sirius rang more true for me than almost any
of Harry's other emotional reactions in the past.

sherry