OOP: Signs of Death

[Renee Daniels]

No: HPFGUIDX 62164

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "zanelupin" <zanelupin at y...> 
wrote:
> I admit I have not yet had time to read through all the posts, so I 
> don't know if this has been brought up.  
> I was wondering if anyone else found Sirius being the one to die 
> predictible?  I don't mean before the book was released.  Before, 
> Sirius was one of the characters I least suspected to die.  As I 
read 
> OOP, though, there seemed to be hints that Sirius was indeed the 
one 
> who would die.  Harry constantly worried about him and his reckless 
> behavior.  He was trapped in a house he hated with a house elf and 
> portrait who hated him in return.  The signs pointed in his 
direction.
> I fervently hoped that Sirius appeared too obvious to be the one as 
> there were other candidates like Arthur Weasley and Neville.  I 
hoped 
> it so hard that I began believing that Sirius couldn't possibly 
have 
> died despite how the book read.  I managed to be shocked all the 
same 
> when Bellatrix killed him.
> So, did I delude myself into believing that Sirius wouldn't die, or 
> is JKR just so great that she managed to befuddle me even though I 
> thought it was clear through most of OOP that Sirius would die?
> 
> Forgive me if this is rambling and makes no sense.  I've had little 
> sleep as I've spent almost all my time while not at work reading 
and 
> rereading OOP.
> 
> KathyK

Me:
I didn't have Sirius pegged to die, ever. Sirius, Ron, and Hermoine 
were the the ones i had slated to survive the series. JKR seemed to 
be playing russian roulet with the chars: Hangrid and the Giant, 
Hermoine and the Centaurs, McGonagall and the Stunning Spells, Lupin 
and the Mysterious Missions, Arthur and the Snake, and all the Kids 
and the Duel....

Infact, I had everybody but Sirius slated to die. Rowling seems to 
have been playing to the croud... 

~Calimora (Who's world split into two universes, one with Sirius and 
one without)