OOP: What killed Character X and questions

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No: HPFGUIDX 63560

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> Did anyone else who did not think that Sirius would be the one to 
die before the book change their minds upon starting the book? I 
didn't really know who I thought would die but I was worried that it 
would be Lupin. However on starting the book I changed my mind. I 
don't know why but almost the moment Sirius turned up I knew he would 
be the one to die and I spent most of the book tensing up every time 
he turned up because I was so worried. When we got to the end and he 
wasn't there I was soooo relieved and then he turned up with Lupin 
and the others and I just felt like screaming at him to get back to 
his house. 
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Sirius was low on my list of people I thought would die in OoP.  I 
wasn't sure he'd make it through the series, but I figured he'd be 
around for a while for a number of reason. 

1) The Parting of Ways chapter in GoF - Snape and Sirius shake hands, 
however unwillingly.  I took that as a clue that they'd end up 
working together at least part of them time in OoP and would have to 
find a way to overcome their differences for the greater good.
2) The Godfather thing - I'd also hoped for a greater personal face-
to-face connection between Harry and Sirius, as a way for both of 
them to give and get some much needed emotional support.  Harry at 
some point would become more independent (and would have to, given 
his particular function in life as potential Vmort Exterminator), but 
again, I thought that would come in Book 6 or 7.

In OoP, I started to get a bad feeling about Sirius' survival from 
the very first time we saw him.  He was portrayed as trapped, useless 
to the cause (or at least feeling useless). Mention is made several 
times about his past recklessness or rashness or irresponsibility. 
JKR pretty much made his role to have no role in the workings of the 
Order. to sit on the sidelines.  And that just made me think that he 
would of course do something spur-of-the-moment and get himself 
killed.  

Plus, he struck me as much more emotionally volatile than he was in 
GoF, and his emotions were often so negative that I developed an 
increasing sense of foreboding.  Even so, when I read the death scene 
I didn't want to believe it.  

Marianne