[HPforGrownups] Re: Is Sirius Really Dead?

[mlacats at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 72995

In a message dated 07/22/2003 4:43:45 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
Zarleycat at aol.com writes:

> >
> >Thanks for reading this slightly lenghy tale.  I'll be much 
> >interested in what everyone has to say.
> >
> >Harriet
> 
> As much as I hate it, I'm sure he's dead. And I base that on JKR's 
> statements in interveiws where she says flat out that the character 
> she killed off is dead.  Now, maybe she simply doesn't want to give 
> away an important plot line before its time, but I think she'd have 
> to do an awful lot of explaining if Sirius pops up alive further 
> along in the series. 
> 
> Which doesn't close the door on a non-corporeal Sirius showing up in 
> some other form. Plenty of the dead in Potterverse show up, if only 
> briefly, as spirits or shades or what have you.  So, I would not be 
> surprised if Sirius is seen again in some manner.
> 
> Marianne 
> 
As much as I hate to admit it, Marianne, I agree with you.  I just don't have 
the heart to tell my friend -- I think she's in denial.  I remember JKR 
saying the very same thing.  She even said, after she had written 'the terrible 
death' that she went into her kitchen, crying, and said to her husband that she 
did it... the character was DEAD!  I remember her saying in an earlier 
interview that the DEATH would be very difficult for her to write but that it had to 
be done.  That sounds pretty final to me.

Thanks for your response.

       Harriet





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