Canon support for the return of Sirius and other dead characters (?)

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No: HPFGUIDX 90533

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sawsan_issa" <sawsan_issa at e...>
wrote:
> For a long while I was sincerely in doubt that we would ever see
> Sirius again in any form. I felt this because of JKR's confirming his
> death in an interview and the way she explained it it seemed final. I
> hated this feeling more than any other emotion that the book had
> brought out. Now I have reread OotP, I saw hope for some sort of
> return of the dead. I reread the part when Luna and Harry were
> conversing at the end of the book. I will place emphasis on the parts
> that seemed a bit hidden (for me anyway, I am not that much of a "read
> between the lines" sort of gal). <snip>

I've been thinking alot about this lately. Whenever you read something
in this series that rings a bit odd, it's usually a clue, rather than
just a superfluous detail or poorly-structured sentence. And the whole
discussion with Luna certainly rang odd with me.  Luna seems to
represent an unbridled faith in things that seem impossible, and her
words seem very prophetic.

I've said this before, but I just can't believe that JKR would have
spent all of this time and energy on a character (Sirius) just to have
him die before being resolved, or even fleshed out. In literary terms,
this seems like a very badly developed character -- but, we know that
JKR doesn't just throw in poorly developed characters and then just
move on, does she? JKR has said (I believe it was the Albert Hall
interview) that characters can't come back when they are *properly*
dead.  Sounds like a bit of a fluff to me! What is *properly* dead,
anyway?

Anyway, I know that this has been discussed before, but Sirius' death
seems terribly dodgy to me:  

1.It is clear in the text that Bellatrix threw a curse at Sirius; but
that's not the one that hit him.  A second one did.  We don't know
what color it was (was it green?), and we don't know who threw it. 
Seems to be Bellatrix. But it could have been anyone. Even an Order
member. 

2.And just how could Remus have been so sure that Sirius was dead? Big
read flag. The reader has to realize that it's no accident that JKR
chose Remus, the most outside of outsiders in the WW, to tell Harry
that Sirius was dead. We have to question just how Remus would know
what what going on with that veil (he has no access to what goes on at
the Ministry, let alone the Dept. of Mysteries), unless he had been
told beforehand by someone in the Order. Unless Sirius' "death" had
been planned.

Gonna go look through the book again to see if Luna's sentiments are
repeated anywhere else.  Cheers!

:: Entropy :: , who wonders if Sirius would show up in the Room of
Requirement if Harry needed to speak to him.