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

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "vivida89" <vivida89 at ...> 
wrote:


> 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."

Marianne:

I believe she said something similar in one of her recent interviews 
regarding Harry and Teddy Lupin. Something along the lines of Harry 
being a better godfather (or better choice for godfather) for Teddy 
than Sirius ever was to Harry. I thought that quite peculiar as the 
circumstances around Teddy's growth from childhood are radically 
different than the situation Harry was in.  Teddy, to our knowledge, 
is not being pursued by an evil overlord.  There is no wizard war 
going on as he grows up.  Thus, there may be no instances were 
someone might behave "recklessly" in response to both circumstances 
and nature.  I guess Sirius would have been a better godfather had 
he stayed in the tropics and simply wrote encouraging letters to 
Harry <g>.

vivida:
> 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. 

Marianne:

I thought this sort of odd, too. I wondered why Remus and Sirius 
were suddenly portrayed as much younger than they were at the time 
of their deaths. I could understand if they appeared as healthy men 
in their late 30s, as they would have had Sirius not suffered the 
ravages of Azkaban and Remus not suffered from the strains of being 
a werewolf, but it seemed to me that JKR was regressing (maybe 
that's not quite the right word) them back to the times that they 
were happiest, which would have been before everything went so 
drastically wrong. Or maybe she just wanted them to look similar in 
age to James and Lily.  Whatever, it just struck me as strange.

vivida:
 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.

Marianne:
I'm with you whole-heartedly on this.  I had also hoped that Harry 
would have said something when he visited his parents' grave to 
acknowledge Sirius's loss. He could have said something like, once 
this war was over, that he would memorialize Sirius in some way next 
to James and Lily. Even if that was not made explicit later in the 
epilogue, I would have assumed Harry did it.  But, nothing.  I'm 
also curious if JKR will ever show Sirius's birthday on the calendar 
on her website. The theory used to be that only live characters ever 
showed up, which was true to a point.  However, some of the 
characters whose birthdays were revealed are now definitely dead. 

Marianne