Contacting Sirius

[meidbh]

No: HPFGUIDX 108425

 Magda wrote:
"The point of the mirror was to provide simultaneaous communication 
in the present between two people I strongly doubt that Harry will 
be able to interact with him as he does with portraits.  Sirius is 
gone and that's that.
And frankly, I doubt very much that a 16-year-old Sirius would 
provide the kind of advice that Harry needs."
  

Meidbh:

I agree on both counts.
If there were a way to communicate from beyond the grave surely 
Harry's parents (knowing that they were in danger) would have set it 
up so they could communicate with Harry if they should die.

I think the most likely way for Sirius to continue to play a part is 
through a "recorded" message (pensieve, Riddle style diary, letter 
etc...)

JKR said that Sirius's death was suddden and unexpected (see below) 
because that is so often how it is in real life. She knows that many 
of her audience are children who have lost someone close. I don't 
think she is going to introduce voices from beyond the grave. That 
would be far too Trelawneyesque.

Meidbh :-)


Royal Albert hall - JKR to Stephen Fry "I think what I was trying to 
do with the death in this book was show how very arbitrary and 
sudden death is. This is a death where you didn't have a big death 
bed scene. It happened almost accidentally and that is one of the 
very cruel things about death and they're now in a war situation 
where that really does happen, where one minute you're talking to 
your friend and the next minute he's gone. It's so shocking and so 
inexplicable
 'Where did they go?' "