Siriusly Alive

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, SiriusBlack4Eternity 
<willowsgreyghost at y...> wrote:

>ginamiller: Please tell me that someone else out there believes that 
Sirius is 

> Sherrie here:
In the Royal Albert Hall chat, JKR specifically refers to it as "the 
death." Now, when answering questions about the books, JKR may evade, 
avoid, sidestep, joke, respond with a question of her own...but she 
doesn't lie.  IMHO, if she calls it a death, that's exactly what it 
is.

> SB4E:
While I like Sirius and would rather have him alive, I am not going 
to weigh in on whether he is alive or not, but I am going to ask a 
question in regard to your statement that JKR doesn't lie and she 
called it a death.  Let's say that you are trying to convince readers 
that someone is dead although you have other plans for his/her 
character.  Are you going to say...no their not dead...I just want 
you to think that.  There are other meanings to someone dying than 
the literal meaning.  It's just something to think about.

Now Entropy:

I agree completely! Sirius falling through the veil certainly makes 
him "technically" dead. Notice he was not killed in a 
straightforward, AK kind of way. This would allow JKR to truthfully 
say that she killed off Sirius' character and was saddened by it.  
Even if she knows that Sirius will return, she could be quite upset 
by all of the sadness this will cause Harry in the meantime. I 
wouldn't be one bit surprised that she "fudged" her comments a bit in 
order to help us believe that the unimaginable has happened.

This series is based, in a BIG way, on the cycle of birth, death, and 
rebirth. It has become a recurring theme throughout each of the 
books. Fawkes burns and returns, Crouch Jr. was believed to be dead 
and returned, Peter Pettigrew faked his death and returned and, of 
course, Voldy was thought by many to be dead and has now returned. In 
Harry's world, dead is most certainly NOT always dead!