JKR and the boys

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 161588

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...> 
wrote:
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And Dumbledore, who
> can't explain why he trusts Severus Snape, can't help Harry sort out
> these mixed-up emotions. Of course, not having a funeral or even a
> memorial service for Black didn't help Harry, either. He hasn't been
> given a chance to grieve for his godfather in a normal fashion.
> 
> Carol, who thinks that Sirius Black's body will be returned through
> the Veil and he'll be given a real funeral in Book 7
>

I'm not sure that DD is any more to blame than anybody else when it 
comes to that.  The adults surrounding Harry really do seem to be 
emotionally retarded, ludicrously incompetent, often ignoble, nut 
cases.  Lupin, at least, has an excuse.  The others just seem to be 
incompetent morons.

Getting Sirius' body back from the veil would be interesting, but 
would, I suspect, open up a can of worms that would rival the 
whole "DD speech in OOTP" or "veritaserum not being used on Sirius" 
or "ludicrously incompetent and convoluted Voldemort plans in OOTP 
and GoF" cans of worms.  To wit, how to get the body back without 
crossing through the veil?  And if one can cross the veil to get the 
body, why couldn't one cross the veil to get the living Sirius?  Not 
to mention it still doesn't answer the question of why there wasn't a 
memorial for Sirius, body or no.

Lupinlore