Sirius and Sherlock

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No: HPFGUIDX 76939

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jwcpgh" <jwcpgh at y...> wrote:
> I'm a big Sherlock Homes fan, and it occurred to me the other day 
> that if JKR decides to bring Sirius back somehow, she will have some 
> pretty solid literary precedent.  After all, Conan Doyle thought he'd 
> killed off Sherlock pretty definitively but it turned out he was 
> wrong.  No body, you see.  Of course, there are differences-JKR has 
> the whole HP plotline thought out whereas ACD deliberately wrote the 
> Holmes stories and novels to stand independently.  Still...hope 
> springs eternal.  In my heart, I think Sirius is really gone but with 
> JKR, anything is possible.
> 
> Laura (still in mourning for her beloved Sirius even though her 
> teenage daughter thinks she should get over it already)


The great Sherlock would be anathema on this site. Don't forget his
dictum "It is a capital mistake to theorise before you have the facts."
Definitely not the motto of HPfGU.

Kneasy