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

[potioncat]

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> Alla:
> 
> Right okay, it is a much milder comparison then I agree. I still 
> find it bizarre but to a lesser degree then.
> 
> Look, it is as if she would say that Ginny was better mother than 
> Lily or Harry is better father than James.

Potioncat:
JKR was writing a story. She didn't have the luxury of loving the 
characters. She dished all sorts of bad things onto their heads for 
the purpose of telling the story. So Harry had to lose James and 
Lily. AK, AK. 

They left behind a god-father who would have loved him very much. 
Sirius needed a set of virtues and flaws to go with circumstances 
that would lead him to his heroic, but untimely death. Let's see 12 
years of Azkaban; some isolated time in 12 GP then an impulsive dash 
to rescue Harry. AK. 

DD needed him to grow up to be the Chosen One. DD had cartloads of 
baggage: secrets on top of secrets; a thirst to wield power that he 
had to resist; an inability to trust others; a need to defeat LV. He 
didn't so much care for Harry as he developed him.

Teddy is a different story. Teddy loses his parents and one 
grandparent, but has a loving, young grandmother. He also gets Harry 
as a god-father. Harry who knows how to love, knows what it's like to 
be an orphan and brings along his Weasley clan to be family for 
Teddy. 

Actually, Teddy is no story at all.


Potioncat, wonders if anyone knows how to find a post about Sirius 
and Jo having a conversation in Azkaban just as PoA (or maybe OoP) is 
about to come out. (or would have been written after either of those 
came out)