The Dead Are Not Gone, They're Just Hiding.

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 83936

There have been endless discussion about whether Sirius is dead and
whether or not, even if dead, he will come back. There are those in
the camp who say he's dead and that's that. He gone, so get over it.
Other say, 'Yeh, but...'.

I say, the fact that he is totally completely and irrevocably dead
will not stop him from entering the story again. Harry's parents are
dead, yet how many times have they entered the story so far. Not just
mentioned in passing, but actually established a presents. Harry sees
them in his photo album, he sees them in the Mirror, he sees them in
the picture Moody shows him, they appear in flashbacks, and in the
pensive. Dead as as doornail, yet they still appear.

I think in that same sense, we will see Sirius again, I don't think
his part of the story is done. It may be in the form of more
information that gives us a deeper understanding of the man. For
example, if Sirius turned out to be a Slytherin, that might lay the
ground work for Harry to realize that not all Slytherins are bad, and
that perhaps, he can truly find some allies there. 

Perhaps he will return in a flashback; in the recolections of a living
person. Perhaps in a pensive scene. At the moment I am strongly
leaning toward Sirius speaking to Harry from beyond The Veil. That is
Harry returns to the Death Chamber, pulls back the curtain, and has a
short conversation with Sirius. 

The nature of that conversation, you might ask? Perhaps, Harry feels
it is better to abondon the 'moral coil' and find freedom from life's
torment by joining his parents, so he returns to the Death Chamber.
There, behind The Veil, he finds Sirius, who convinces him that life
is too precious, with too much potential for love and joy to be
abandon because it's gotten a little hard. This could be the
heart-to-heart that would have made Sirius's death more meaningful,
and as odd as it is to say, more satisfying.

I'm not saying that will happen, I'm just pointing to a logical ways
in which Sirius could be completely and irreversably dead, and yet
still appear in the next two books.

Just a thought.

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