It wasn't pointless (SPOILER)

[Kimberly]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "psychic_serpent" 
<psychic_serpent at y...> wrote:

> I think the real lesson for Harry to learn from all this is not how 
> to grieve, but how not to be like Sirius, who never got over his 
> need for revenge, and so that gave him a cursed life ("a half-
life," 
> as the people are described who would dare drink unicorn's blood). 
I 
> also think that Harry needs to make sure he doesn't do what both 
> Sirius and Voldemort did--set out to prevent something and by doing 
> so bring those events about. He needs to face his future square in
> the face and deal with it head on. So while it may be 
> dissatisfactory in some ways for a character to be a life-lesson 
for 
> Harry, it's a contrast that's good for her to have in the books. I 
> don't think it's for nothing at all, once you consider some of the 
> deeper meanings.

Oh Barb.  This just breaks my heart all over again because... he did 
just that, didn't he?  He set out to save Sirius, which resulted in 
Sirius dying.  It's really amazing how richly she layered it when you 
point that out about Voldemort and Sirius as well, but it leaves me 
more depressed than ever.

Kimberly
Very very sad.