[HPforGrownups] Are we sure about Sirius?

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 69670


Friday, July 11, 2003, 10:08:16 PM, Danger Mouse wrote:

DM> Are we sure Sirius is dead? All we saw was him get hit by
DM> *some sort of spell* and fall through that curtain. Sure, it's
DM> called the Death Room, but couldn't Sirius just as well be
DM> floating around in some alternate universe? There are things
DM> "worth than death" - - could that be one of them? Could
DM> Sirius return after all?

My dad, who has an education in Paralegal studies and is also
a Mystery buff, says, "No _corpus delicti_, no proven death",
by which he means that if there's no dead body of Sirius, then
we cannot from a legal standpoint assume he *is* dead.

But if JKR *has* in fact decreed in interviews that he is
"not only merely dead, but really most sincerely dead", then that's
something else again...

-- 
Dave (As much in denial as everyone else)