[HPforGrownups] Sirius Black's role in DH -- why? SPOILERS

[Katie Spilman]

No: HPFGUIDX 179118

Vivida89:


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..."


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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.
Katie S.:I thought this laughter was to show the family resemblance, to show some foreshadowing to the impending event, and to show that LV and his followers were not truly "evil," they were just different.  It is no coincidence that there are so many foils in the series, and Bellatrix and Sirius both died in a rush of overconfidence, something both sides are guilty of.  There is no black and white, good and evil, Gryffindor and Slytherin, there are only flawed people, which we all are.



















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