Is Sirius Really Dead? What JKR herself says...

[marephraim]

No: HPFGUIDX 72754

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Erin Hamilton 
<music4masses at e...> wrote:
> At 01:25 PM 7/22/2003, you wrote:
> 
> >But I guess the question that keeps coming back to me is, why did 
she
> >kill him off *this* way? -- Why didn't she just have Bellatrix AK 
him?
> >Why did she have Sirius fall through the Veil and guarantee the
> >lack of a _corpus delicti_ (Sirius' dead body)?
> >
> >*Something* seems fishy about the whole thing...
> >
> >--
> >D
> 
Stephen Fry:  Very true
very true we're not going to go into the 
business who dies because not everyone has read the book but did it 
did cause a stir when you admitted it caused you some distress.  Do 
you feel emotional about a lot of the characters you write?

JK Rowling:   I do. What I was trying to do with the death in this 
book was that I wanted to show how very arbitrary and sudden death 
is.  This is a death with no big deathbed scene — it happens almost 
accidentally. It's one of the cruel things about death and we're now 
in a war situation where that does happen. That's how it happens — 
one minute you are talking to your friend and the next minute he is 
gone, so shocking and inexplicable — one minute they are there but 
now where did they go? I found it upsetting to write because I knew 
what it would mean to Harry.

from the Royal Albert Hall Interview
http://www.bloomsbury.com/harrypotter/wizard/section/news.asp?
s=1&pageNo=40

I think what some members of this group have been experiencing is 
called "denial"

MarEphraim