One mystery *partially* solved!

[Cindy C.]

Luke wrote:

So the new mystery is: what could Kloves have possibly said 
> about Black that book five will make impossible?

Thanks for the outstanding question, Luke.  I love a good mystery!

Maybe the Kloves lines were references to Black being Harry's 
godfather.  Something like Hagrid says essentially "Sirius wants to 
raise Harry.  Shouldn't Harry go live with Sirius Black?" and 
Dumbledore says essentially "No, that can never happen."  So in Book 
5, Harry finally does get to go live with Sirius, which means Sirius 
doesn't die and gets his name cleared in Book 5?  

The logic is that it would be natural for Kloves to include something 
about the godfather relationship so that the reference to the 
motorbike in PS/SS would make some sense.  It also makes sense that 
Kloves would want to flesh out Hagrid's statements in the book that 
Sirius argued with him about taking Harry.  

Cindy (whose opinion on this is undoubtedly influenced by the fact 
that she likes Sirius and doesn't want him to die in Book 5)