Question about Sirius

[Emily]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, zpavri at ... wrote:
>
> I read the Order of the Phoenix a  while back, so I really don't 
remember it 
> too well, I was curious about one  thing.  How many of you feel 
that Sirius is 
> indeed dead?  Could he  still be alive?  In the movie Goblet of 
Fire when 
> Wormtail uses the AK  curse on Cedric...Cedric is killed 
instantly.  However in 
> the Order of the  Phoenix movie, when Bellatrix uses the AK curse 
on Sirius..he 
> floats away ...I  don't understand that part?  

imamommy:
I think this was a filmmaker screw-up.  In the book, Sirius is not 
hit with an AK; the spell is a stunning spell, IIRC.  Thus, he is 
stunned and sort of falls into the archway.
My guess was that they used AK in the film to make sure the audience 
knew he was really dead.  So, we'll have to see if they shot 
themselves in the foot or not.