[HPforGrownups] Deaths in OotP

[ephilipbar at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 72939

Cheryl wrote in response to Kelly questioning if Sirius is dead because we 
have no body...
"this is a minor quibble but we aren't told what color the light is that hits 
Sirius, just that the light hit him in the chest"( I paraphrased).

Me:
This is true but as I just finished the book for the second time this point 
bothers me as well.  Perhaps it is because I really, really didn't want Sirius 
to be dead but I wondered why the absence in description of the color of the 
light that sends Sirius beyond the veil.  Or is he dead because he fell back 
there? Bellatrix would have no problem killing him but did she send him to a 
fate worse by sending him there and he will have no way to come back? (I can't 
help but think of the Catholic idea of "limbo" (place where unborn/ unbaptized 
babies go) and  "purgatory"  (where you go if you have sinned on earth before 
you are free to go to heaven).  This is almost for me more believable than to 
think she felt something for her cousin...It seemed to me that the red lights 
were part of the stunning spells and the green light was the "Avada".  
Anyone have any ideas?

jumping out of the burrow where I lurk again,
 Liz


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