OOP: Signs of Death

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No: HPFGUIDX 62440


>  grindieloe wrote about Sirius's death:
> > I actually agree that it was predictable, after beginning to read 
> > OoP, that Sirius was the one to die.  He was being quite reckless 
> > throughout the book; however, I was fooled by the various red 
> > herrings along the way.  In the back of my brain however, I think 
> > that signs were pointing to Sirius. >
 
Iris: 
> He was being quite reckless, that's right, but several times, JKR 
> also reminded us that he was by many ways one of more attractive 
> characters in the series. We found several terms 
> like   "handsome","good looking", etc, as if she was missing him in 
> anticipation. And when at last she made him die, she described his 
> body as "a graceful arc", adding a mention to his "waste once-
> handsome face". >>>>


One line at the beginning of the book made me really think that it was
going to be Sirius...
" The other's hushed voices were giving Harry an odd feeling of
foreboding; it was as though they had just entered the house of a
dying person. "
And it is Sirius's house!
JKR uses the same tactics in every book. For example, in Philosopher's
Stone she describes Hagrid as being "a giant of a man", and later, in
Goblet of Fire, we find out that Hagrid is a half-giant.

Cindy