Good Writing (was Why now?)

[dcgmck]

No: HPFGUIDX 110734

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Pippin wrote: 
> Herself has said that we will understand why Sirius had to die, 
> and I believe her. For now it is a mystery on several levels, 
> especially if you accept the premise that we don't really know 
> who killed him. But, IMO, Harry's decision to go to the DoM was 
> only peripheral--we are going to understand in the end, I believe, 
> that the central and critical cause of Sirius's death was his 
> refusal to free Kreacher. That is what makes it tragedy and not 
> melodrama.
> 
dcgmck:
Ah, but has Sirius indeed died in the sense that one normally 
understands death, in a terminal, end-of-communications way?  Is 
further reference to that bit of mirror another red herring?  What is 
with that Veil?  (I do agree that we don't really know what killed 
Sirius.)

What I don't agree with is that his refusal to free Kreacher made his 
death inevitable.  In fact, didn't Sirius want to send Kreacher 
forever from GP, along with all the other memorabilia of his 
ancestors?  It was, in fact, Dumbledore who said that Kreacher could 
not be released because he knew too much.