OOP: Sirius thoughts ...

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 67483

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "rhosyn4u" <a4annielauss at m...> 
wrote:
> OK, I'm not saying I SUPPORT this or anything, but I do think all 
> the denial-ee's out there are probably right. No one, except Harry, 
> ever says Sirius is dead. Lupin says "he's gone," then he 
says "he's 
> d--" and Harry inturrupts him and yells "HE'S NOT DEAD!!!" We never 
> see his body, he just skids under the veil. Why on earth would JKR 
> have him do that, unless it was necessary his death have no 
finality?
> 
> So, given JKR's sneakiness, I propose we have definitely NOT seen 
> the last of Sirius. Unless of course, in a fit of enormous 
> sneakiness, she is banking on our banking on her sneakiness and has 
> therefore sneakily set up another sneaky red herring....
> 
> I'm not sure how I feel about this. Of course, from an emotional 
> standpoint I don't WANT any of the good guys to die and would 
> welcome Sirius back with tears of joy, but in the interests of good 
> literature/plot and all that, I'm afraid a Ressurrected!Sirius 
would 
> be stretching it a bit thin, and some painful deaths are necessary; 
> this is a WAR, after all.
> 
> Nerts.
> ~rhosyn =)

A number of people, on this list and elsewhere where HP is discussed, 
have talked about the finality of death, how JKR doesn't mess around 
with death, how, if Sirius was to reappear alive, this whole set-up, 
along with JKR's statements in the press about how the character 
is "dead" wouldn't add up. Well, yessss, but...

I'm working on a post that will hopefully be up tomorrow on the 
treatment of injury, death and mental impairment in JKR's world.  
And, what strikes me is that the only thing that seems to be what it 
is truly described as being is mental impairment, ie, the Longbottoms.

Death, in JKR's world, is not finite.  People who are dead keep 
finding ways to come back into the land of the living. I think that 
some people would have a problem of a fully revived, resurrected 
Sirius springing out from behind the veil because it may, in their 
view, cheapen death.  In the real world we don't have the opportunity 
to get our loved ones back once they're gone, at least, not in a 
corporeal sense.  But, I think the door is wide open for a 
reappearance of Sirius in some other form.  

Anybody know JKR's feelings about reincarnation???

Marianne