Question about Sirius/ Other comments

[Richelle Votaw]

zpavri at aol.com 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?

That's because he falls into the veil, which represents death.  The curse
didn't hit him square on, he's really killed by the fall through the veil.
Trust me, he's dead.  He has to be or else Kreacher wouldn't have had to
obey Harry's orders in HBP.

A few other comments about the movie now that I've seen it a second time and
discussed it with a friend who hasn't yet read the book:

1) Snape--The people I've talked to who saw it without reading the book
didn't realize it was Snape who alerted the Order to Harry and co. heading
off to London.  Come on, Snape needs all the credit he can get for being a
good guy!  I realize we were supposed to catch the Padfoot comment and put
it all together, but most people who didn't know haven't.

2) Neville's parents--Except for Sirius's comment about their face being
worse than death for all we know they are dead by the way everyone else
talks.  My friend thought they were, even commented on such after the movie.

3) Grawp--he really is kind of cute in the movie, I didn't like him in the
book.  I wonder what this means for Book VII...

4) Kreacher--I noticed this time around that Sirius says "Away with you" to
him, even though we don't find out that Kreacher went to the Malfoys, maybe
that's still important?

Richelle