OoP: What was the Point of this Death? And Phineas ??s

[PhoenixAnna]

No: HPFGUIDX 62289

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "zenchela" <zenchela at y...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kiricat2001" 
<Zarleycat at a...> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> > What curse killed Sirius?
> 
> Did it have to be a curse?  I realize that green sparks or a green 
> jet of light signifies Slytherin/DE, but does that automatically 
mean 
> a curse rather than a regular spell?  (Honestly curious, here.)
> > 
> > Was he dead before he fell behind the veil?
> 
> Good question.  *WAS* he dead, or does Remus just assume he is?  
What 
> would happen to a still-living person who goes behind the veil?
> 
> Which leads to my thought: I think it's possible we may see 
evidence 
> of Sirius/Harry trying to communicate with each other in 5 and 6.  
I 
> know that Dumbledore said that "to the well-regulated mind, death 
is 
> the next great adventure" and Sirius would be just the one to go 
for 
> that great adventure, but Sirius didn't want to die.  His time with 
> Harry was unfinished, and it's possible that he'd try -- maybe 
> through Phineas? -- to talk to Harry.  And Harry would certainly be 
> open to looking through the veil to talk to Sirius.  What was the 
> thought that saved him from Voldemort?  "And he'd see Sirius again."
> 
> Zen

I thought the same thing, like maybe it was just a teleportation 
device, and maybe he would come out somewhere else, like that cabinet 
the twins pushed that Slytherin boy into.  I was SO hoping taht would 
be the case.  Unfortunately, when I re-read the last 4 chapters, and 
got to the part when Dumbledore is talking to that moron Fudge, he 
said that the Death Eaters were restrained in the Chamber of Death.  
My guess would be that since that room looked similar to the 
courtroom from earlier, that this was a room for execution, and that 
the curtain leads straight to death.  Nice, painless, creepy.  But 
they probably don't use it anymore since they became more enlightened 
and used the dementors to suck the happiness out of you (insert 
sarcasm here)because that is so much nicer, painless, and less 
creepy.  Oh, and the "he'd see Sirius again" I think was just him 
wanting to die to join Sirius.   


PhoenixAnna