[ SECRET POST #2380 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2380 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

That is how I felt about book 6. Book 5, to me, was a normal teenage reaction to the hell he'd been through in book 4. Book 6!Harry not only seemed to feel nothing over losing his godfather, he basically turned into his father in all the wrong ways.

[(Anonymous)]

There are moments in the book where he's triggered... I think JK Rowling was trying to show that once people die, they're just gone. There's no romantic prose about it, no songs, they're just gone and people have to bitterly move on. But I do remember wanting something more, for sure.

[cassandraoftroy]

Yeah, that's fair. He was probably even worse in book 6, but I think I'd just come to expect it. The thing that really killed me in book 5 was the magic mirror he got from Sirius, and how he completely failed to realize that Sirius had basically given him a cell phone so he didn't need to go through all this horseshit to contact Sirius at the end of the book and end up getting the poor bastard killed -- and then never realize this afterwards, even when he finds the broken mirror in his trunk at the end. That just... bothered me. Sirius didn't "fall through the Veil," he fell through a plot hole.

[making_excuses]

Oh God that annoyed me too! Seriously! Why didn't he use the mirror? WHY?

[(Anonymous)]

He didn't explicitly state it, but I think it was pretty clear that Harry did realize the mirror could have prevented Sirius' death. He finds it in the trunk, along with the note from Sirius, and is so upset by it that he throws it into the bottom of the trunk and smashes it. He later forgets it was there and cuts his hand on it, but that was after the initial scene where he has that moment of understanding. And part of the reason that scene is powerful is BECAUSE he doesn't outright say 'this could have saved him', the reader just experiences that profound regret along with Harry. I don't really like Harry (though I get why he acts how he does, especially in book 5 when he's so emotionally fragile) and I really dislike Sirius. But that scene still made me cry because of how horrifying the situation was. I think Harry just couldn't accept it and so he never really reflects on it, he wouldn't be able to handle it if he did. That's kind of his pattern, he totally represses any trauma that comes his way and then unleashes it at inappropriate times.

[cassandraoftroy]

That could be; it's been a while since I read the book, and I remember at the time interpreting it as though he didn't make the connection and was just reacting to the reminder of Sirius that the present represented, not what the actual present itself was, but I could have been wrong.