Yeah, the three-year summer must have really distorted her vision. OOTP just didn't make a lot of sense. I was really expecting Harry to recognize, after Cedric's death, that Snape had a point! Maybe it's because I liked Sirius so much, but his Death by Drapery, as you put it, was incredibly irritating. I didn't even get the sense Harry felt much grief over the man - he just had a tantrum over Dumbledore keeping him in the dark.
I mean, a truly heroic Harry would have been not only grieving Sirius, I think, but much, much more upset that he had led his friends into danger and gotten Tonks badly injured. And you'd think he'd want to know more about the Order, too. Looking back, that was the moment the story got out of control - because D. says his mistake was in trying to keep Harry safe, and then says the next moment he's sending him back to the Dursleys so he can be safe. That doesn't make sense. Do you trust Harry or not, Dumbledore??
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Date: 2016-11-14 12:44 am (UTC)Yeah, the three-year summer must have really distorted her vision. OOTP just didn't make a lot of sense. I was really expecting Harry to recognize, after Cedric's death, that Snape had a point! Maybe it's because I liked Sirius so much, but his Death by Drapery, as you put it, was incredibly irritating. I didn't even get the sense Harry felt much grief over the man - he just had a tantrum over Dumbledore keeping him in the dark.
I mean, a truly heroic Harry would have been not only grieving Sirius, I think, but much, much more upset that he had led his friends into danger and gotten Tonks badly injured. And you'd think he'd want to know more about the Order, too. Looking back, that was the moment the story got out of control - because D. says his mistake was in trying to keep Harry safe, and then says the next moment he's sending him back to the Dursleys so he can be safe. That doesn't make sense. Do you trust Harry or not, Dumbledore??