Sirius Black's role in DH -- why? SPOILERS

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This is my first post, so please excuse me if I did anything
wrong. However after reading DH two times, there's an urgent
question that doesn't leave me alone. Thus would be the role
of Sirius Black in the last book.

I always saw Sirius Black as my favorite character (along with
Remus Lupin) and at first I used to idolize him, saying he had
perfectly well reasons for what he did and for how he behaved,
but after thinking a HUGE LOT, I came to the conclusion he's
not perfect - and this should be so, because no one *can* be
perfect.

Anyway, I do have the opinion that JKR fairly dislikes Sirius,
or at least doesn't think too much of him. Sure, in one of her
interviews she does state she LIKES him, but that he's not
perfect. No problem there, it's okay. But just why this in
DH -- I had the impression she was sort of devaluating him.

She keeps saying over and over, Sirius is NOT perfect, he has
flaws.

We got that. I think everyone knows this. And since PoA I
assume everyone gets the point that he's gone slightly mad
in Azkaban. He's reckless, impulsive, an utter git composed
to people he doesn't care about, haughty,... He actually does
have some traits I really dislike and yet he's my favorite
character. But since the "Haunting of Devaluation of SB" goes
on, I start to doubt his character. I don't know if I make an
overdone fuss of it, but it really bothers me.

In DH, page 418, last sentences it's said: "...He seemed to set
on the course to become just as reckless a godfather to Teddy
Lupin as Sirius Black had been to him."

Page 590, somewhere a bit above the middle: "Bellatrix laughed,
the same the same exhilarated laugh her cousin Sirius had given
as he toppled backwards through the veil..."

As to quote number one, I hope she only wanted to emphazise
the fact that Sirius really was NO good godfather for Harry.
He acted a bit off-hand and slightly careless, for example
in OotP when he told Harry he'd thougt he was more like James.
This is but only because Sirius has gone a bit mad in Azkaban
and he somehow switches the fronts, he's confused about it. No
thing there.

Quote number two really got me. My mouth stands open every time
I read it, my eyes narrow -- how can she? How can JKR compare
Sirius with someone he dislikes? How can she compare his death
to the death of the one woman he was actually killed by? And
moreover, it seems like JKR wants to stress the fact that Sirius
was a Black in the end, if not as black literally as the other
family members but he still was. And I think he doesn't deserve
this, in no way. Sirius was haughty and off-balanced, it's okay,
we know! Why does she have to do this to his memory, when he fell
so ungraciously? I just don't see behind this. Maybe I'm being
a bit childish about this fact, but it really really bothers me.

In the chapter "The Forest Again", Sirius reappears. We can
see that along with James, Lily and Lupin he is an important
person to Harry. I nearly cried because of this scene, it was
so utterly beautiful. I thought JKR stopped, well, "taunting"
(exxagerated, sorry there!) SB indirectly but when we got to
the epilogue... I was like "erm okay"? Sirius wasn't mentioned
often in that book and I completely understand this, because
he's no minor character. But even WHEN she does mention him
it's nearly everything connected with bad things. Okay, about
the epilogue; there were James jr, Lily jr, even Albus SEVERUS
(with whom Harry didn't have as much to do as with Sirius) but
Sirius isn't ever mentioned once. I still hope the second name
of James jr was James Sirius. I really do hope because it seems
unfair to me that Sirius should just be forgotten. In contrary
to that Harry names one of his children after Snape it's just
plain unfair that Sirius apparently doesn't get a role of it.

Am I the only one seeing this? The only one having a problem
with it?

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