Interview w/ JKR [Sirius]

[ereturtle18]

No: HPFGUIDX 72818

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Tasukibeth1 at c... wrote:
<major snipping>
> Beth chimes in:
> I was a big Sirius fan, too, and I felt no emotion at ALL when he 
died. It 
> didn't even hit me until nearly the end, around the time Harry 
started asking 
> Nick to find him a loophole. By then the story was nearly over and 
the moment 
> had passed. I was  especially distruaght by this lackluster death

My response:
   The way you put it reminds me somewhat of Obi-Wan Kenobi's death 
in Star Wars: A New Hope. He just shuts off his lightsaber and Vader 
slices him in half, and that's it. No body, no funeral... I wasn't 
happy. I was consoled when his "ghost" had an important part in the 
rest of the series. I'm really hoping for a parallel plotline 
involving Sirius, though he'll have to come back as something 
besides a ghost. When he died, I read the rest of the book way too 
fast (something I regret now, as I missed all the important details) 
looking and hoping desperately for Sirius to be proven not dead, or 
at least a more satisfactory explanation of what the veil was. I 
started formulating almost impossible ways to save him, such 
as, "Harry and Lupin or somebody Dissillusion themselves, grab an 
invisibility cloak, use a Timeturner, stand in front of the veil, 
and catch Sirius in the cloak, all without getting hit by stray 
jinxes." Hmmm, that could be an interesting list..."Near Impossible 
Ways to Save Sirius Without Screwing Up the Plotline." For Sirius 
fans, anyway. Or would that be considered fanfiction?<g>

ereturtle18 Missing Sirius more than ever...