A Sirius clue

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No: HPFGUIDX 80442

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "psychobirdgirl" 
<psychobirdgirl at y...> wrote:
> Did anyone else everythink, after reading OotP, that it was a 
little too obvious that Sirius would be the one who would die, 
especially considering the commonality of the saying "Dead Serious."
>> psychobirdgirl

I was actually hoping one of the students (not the "primary ones, but 
maybe someone such as Seamus, Colin, etc.) would be the one to die.  
I know it is a selfish thought, but I figured Sirius was going to be 
the one to die and I didn't want to be correct.  JKR kept putting 
different characters in dangerous postitions so that I was constantly 
thinking, "this could be the one".  With all the anger Harry was 
experiencing, I just knew Sirius would die, adding more fuel to 
Harry's anger.  I have a question though.  Why, oh why did Sirius 
wait all those years to escape from Azkaban?  I cannot believe he 
never thought to escape before seeing Peter the rat in the Weasley 
photograph.  Especially since it seems the first thing he did after 
getting away was to transform and go see, well, "observe" Harry.  One 
would think he would have escaped a heck of a lot sooner to try 
to "keep an eye" on Harry covertly, since he knew Harry was alive and 
that many of Voldemort's minions were STILL on the loose and looking 
for revenge, etc.