OOP: Sirius(spoiler)

[susanbones2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 64484

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "texaschow" 
<flamingstarchows at a...> wrote:
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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "theshef2002" 
<shefali22 at h...> 
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> > We don't really know WHAT is behind that curtain. This is the 
> > Department of Mysteries, it has all sorts of weird stuff in 
there. 
> > Who knows if the people there are actually dead? Maybe they're 
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> > trapped forever with no way of getting out. Harry and Luna can 
hear 
> > voices coming from behind there, and you can never tell with 
> Luna... 
> <snip>
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> Me:
> Considering that they referred to this room as the Death Chamber, I 
> believe that this is(or was)their method of execution - walk 
through 
> the curtain. That would also explain Lupin holding on the Harry for 
> dear life to keep him from running to it (or through it). Anyway, 
if 
> that is the case, then Sirius is most certianly dead.
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> ~Cathy~

Me:
We aren't given full information about this veil and how falling 
behind it works. I am sure it will come up later but I am also 
certain Sirius is dead. DEAD. JKR loves literary fancy but she pulls 
no punches with something as serious as death. A death that we don't 
understand is still a death. I am sure she wanted it that way. She is 
so intrigued by what comes after this life but she's left many deaths 
unexplained. Later she may explain how exactly Sirius' death occured 
but she would not have cried as she wrote the scene had it merely 
been a plot device.
JenD