Deaths affecting Harry

[jerrichase]

No: HPFGUIDX 183476

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jayne" <jaynesmith62 at ...> wrote:
>
> I have a question?
> Out of all the deaths that Harry saw and heard about, other than his 
> parents and Sirius, which do you think he was saddest about
> I think it was DD, lupin, Fred and Dobby. I can't chose out of those 4
> I think that he considersd DD as a surrogate Father, Lupin as a 
trusted 
> friend and someone unbiased to give him advice , Fred as a surrogate 
> brother and of course Dobby as a friend even though he was an elf
> 
> Jayne
> Starting a thread for once

Well, people's deaths are hard to measure, and say "this is sadder than 
that".  Each of these death's were difficut for Harry.  Each has it's 
own different "sadness".  Harry saw DD, Fred, and Dobby die and 
couldn't do anything about them.  Lupin would have been difficult 
because of the disagreements Harry had with Lupin.  I am glad that they 
had a chance to meet between their disagreement at Grimauld Place and 
Lupin's death.

The death that we see disturb Harry the most in "canon" is Cedric's.  
In part becasue Harry felt that if he hadn't told Cedric to take the 
cup with him, it wouldn't have happened.  And it part becasue Harry had 
to recognize that he had been unfair to Cedric during that year.  It 
wasn't Cedric's fault that Cedric and Cho were a "couple", when Harry 
wanted her, for example.  Cedric was a good kid, who was killed for 
doing the right thing for the right reason.  

Another death that Harry will feel sad about is Snape's, as they never 
had a chance to reconcile their difficulties.

However, his visit with DD at Platform 9 3/4 and walk through the 
forest with his parents and Lupin should allow him to be less sad about 
the dead, and to feel more like Luna.

Jerri