[HPforGrownups] Another trip that Sirius lives

[T.M. Sommers]

No: HPFGUIDX 69711

stlcole wrote:
> 
> When I say that Sirius lives, I mean that he is not done playing an 
> active role in this story. He has past through the archway/veil of 
> Death, but as a live person (in my opinion, he was only hit by a 
> stupefy spell) rather than the spirit (and in this peculiar cast, 
> and body) of a dead person. He might not return to this world, but 
> he still could be connected to this story. I'm not sure how yet.

With no apologies at all to Charles Dickens:

Sirius was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about 
that.  Old Sirius was as dead as a doornail.

Mind! I dont mean to say that I know of my own knowledge, what 
there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been 
inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of 
ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in 
the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the 
countrys done for. You will, therefore, permit me to repeat, 
emphatically, that Sirius was as dead as a doornail.