Avada Kadavra

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No: HPFGUIDX 90283

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sawsan_issa" 
<sawsan_issa at e...> wrote:
> I know there have been many discussions about if Sirius is really
> dead, but then I got to thinking, didn't Nearly Headless Nick say
> something about people who die happy don't come back or something
> along those lines? Or at least I think someone said that anyway. So
> that got me to thinking, how many of the people who died via AK died
> happy? That just didn't make any sense to me at all. I know the bit
> about being courageous enough to die and such, but to die happy? I
> doubt anyone who was AK'd would be happy. Please correct me if I am
> wrong. I am definately going to look that bit up again.

I think the quote you are thinking of is not Nearly Headless Nick but 
JKR herself who said in an interview that people who came back as 
ghosts were not very happy people.  I believe she meant in general in 
their lives, not at the moment of death.  If going on to the spirit 
world required joy at one's demise, there would be many more ghosts, 
IMO.

Sue