Sirius...Voldemort...oh, my goodness.

[D.G.]

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The Sergeant Majorette says:
 >>>>>Shivery indeed! Pet Sematary, anyone? The Monkey's Paw? If JKR brings 
Sirius back at all, this would be the way she'd do it. Dead is dead, 
she keeps telling us; woe be unto those who fail to heed these words!<<<<<


I think the Sarge is right. I've seen absolutely no evidence that in 
the Wizard world, the dead can come back to life.

Remember -- V. was not dead when he used that gruesome spell to 
rejuvinate his body.  He was very much alive, he even had a coporeal 
body (granted, it was frail and required constant nurturing, but it 
was there).  Dumbledore told Harry at one point that not even magic 
can bring back the dead.  When he said that, I wondered how ghosts 
fit into the picture;  Nick explained that at the end of OoP.  
Sirius, if nothing else, was a very brave man -- he was certainly not 
afraid to stare Death in the face (so to speak), and so he did not 
hedge his bets by arranging to stay around in ghost form.

In fact wasn't the decision to try to be more powerful than Death 
Voledmort's final and ultimate sacrelige?  His ultimate breach?  The 
very thing that made him the Darkest of Dark Wizards?

D.G. ("JazzmanChgo")

p.s.  That being said -- I sense that the fascination (in fact, the 
almost hypnotic lure) that the Veil and the chasm behind it held for 
Harry and his cohorts was not an insignifant thing -- nor was the 
fact that voices could be heard behind the veil.  I believe that 
these will comprise very important elements in the future.