Good Writing & Death

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No: HPFGUIDX 110964

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Bill and Diana Sowers" 
<sixsunflowers at y...> wrote:
>> I think that even though JKR has set this story in a "magical" 
> world, she will not make anything magical about death.  Dead is 
> dead. 



Alla:

I disagree. There are voices behind the Veil, so there is already 
something magical about Death in JKR world.  Yes, from the POV of 
religious person, it is nothing magical, but from atheist POV, such 
thing cannot happen.



Yes, no spell can bring back the dead, but what if Sirius is 
not "properly dead"?


I know that it is highly unlikely that he will return in the human 
form, but at the same time, I think high possibility exists of him 
returning in SOME form.


I will not stop loving the books if that will not happen, but I 
would welcome such plot twist.
 
>

Bill:

> I can understand the feelings of readers who want Sirius to 
return, 
> healthy and renewed, ready to continue the fight.  I liked the 
> character and was saddened at his death.  But I will be unhappy if 
> JKR brings him back to life.  It just doesn't work that way and it 
> would ring hollow for those of us who have stood at graves and 
> buried our loved ones and those who have waited for someone to 
> return from war and never seen their loved one, alive or dead, 
again.
>\


Alla:

I don't think that if JKR brings Sirius back in any form, it will 
cheapen the meaning of "death".

We already had several important "deaths" in the books, such as 
Potters and Cedric to less extent. JKR obviously stated that they  
are dead.

If Sirius was not "properly dead", I will not consider it a "cheap 
plot twist".