Re: So why *did* Sirius have to die?
- From: dicconf@xxxxxxxxx (Richard Eney)
- Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 05:38:21 -0000
In article <fgbit9$g3e$1@xxxxxxxx>,
Drusilla <gammanormidsERASETHIS@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
santosh escribió:
Drusilla wrote:
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[about Sirius]
The emotional moment at the end of OotP was needed for Harry
to understand that the difference between him and Voldemort
IS love: Perhaps Harry wouldn't have known how much he loved
him if he had not died.
I think that he only _really_ understood this after the King's Cross
chapter, certainly not at the end of the OotP. In HBP, during the
Pensieve sessions, Dumbledore goes to some lengths to emphasise that
Love was Harry's advantage over Voldemort and even then Harry appears
to be disbelieving.
I don't think that was the only reason Sirius had to die. It seems more
likely to me that he had to die because Harry had to own Kreacher, for
plot and character reasons. Sirius would not have learned to treat
Kreacher kindly, and it would have taken more time and kindness to
overcome all those years of bad treatment. Kreacher's testimony was
what told us how R.A.B. got the locket out of the cave.
Because Sirius had to be a removable character, JKR created him as a
fairly standard romance-novel black sheep who would have been a bad
influence on our hero in the long run, so he dies in a duel because
he is too busy taunting his opponent.
(Although Love didn't result to be a major plot at the end, either
way, but I suppose that was the plan)
Yes, funny how Rowling herself let down one of the chief themes of
the series in the ending, isn't it?
Mmm...
Love was the key to the whole story. All kinds of love:
Dumbledore's infatuation with Grindelwald which led to the loss of
his own family.
Merope's obsessive love for Riddle Senior, which created Voldemort.
Lily's love for Harry, which led her to sacrifice herself for him.
Snape's obsessive love for Lily, which caused him to become loyal to DD.
DD's love for Harry, which slowed Harry's training but let him have
a happier childhood than he might otherwise have had. It also may
have prevented Harry from being too focused on revenge from his
earliest school years; he needed to develop real friendships in order
to have the capacity for sacrifice.
The love of his friends - especially Hermione, Ron, and Neville - which
caused them to help him when it would have been much easier to try to
hide.
Harry's love for all his lost friends, and their love for him, which
led him to be able to imitate his mother's sacrifice and walk to his
death so that Voldemort's death could be possible (by destroying the
accidental horcrux within Harry) and also to protect everyone at
Hogwarts from direct attack by Voldemort. (Too bad it didn't defend
against the other attackers.)
The love that defeated Voldemort at the end was real, it just wasn't
romantic love. It was _Agape_, selfless love.
=Tamar
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