OOP: Kingsley Shacklebolt , Sirius(spoiler)

[theshef2002]

No: HPFGUIDX 64523

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Melanie Black 
<princessmelabela at y...> wrote:
> Shef wrote:

Actually, I didn't write this, but whatever...

> Whoa, hold on there.  Check again, it never said what color the jet 
> of light was, because I was waiting to see if he was really dead.  
I 
> think she was trying to provide herself some "wiggle room" to 
> possibly have Sirius not really dead.
> 
> My reply:
>  
> Okay guys this whole Sirius coming back is well come on what we are 
doing is were setting ourselves up for sever dissappointment.  I mean 
she cried over Sirius' death would she really have done that if he 
wasn't dead for good.  

OK, I've been telling myself that Sirius is *gone* but not *dead*. 
There's something about that curtain that's not right. Sirius as we 
know him is never coming back, but the death was *so* abrupt and *so* 
utterly pointless, that there HAS to be more to the story. If JKR's 
only point was that death is senseless and sudden, then I'm sorry, 
she's not as good a writer as I thought she was. If she wanted a 
grief-stricken and angry Harry, there were other people she could 
have killed off. There was no reason to develop Sirius's character SO 
MUCH in this book  if she was only going to kill him off in the end. 

Sirius will be back in some (non-ghostly) way, shape or form.

Shef