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

[Chris]

No: HPFGUIDX 90536

"Sawsan 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. 
Or, perhaps that it means that in the end of the series, Harry will 
reunite with Sirius and maybe Lily and James; though JKR promised 
that we will never see a living James and Lily. 
Any thoughts?"

Just a couple....Most of this comes from an idea I toyed with whilst 
planning out my plotline for my fanfic book, "HP & Merlin's Wand", 
the original idea was to bring Sirius, Lily and James back to life, 
but in the end my co-writer said this meant all the sympathy Harry 
got from readers vanished. I did this by assuming that Sirius did not 
die from Bella's curse. There is no mention in the book that it was 
AK, it just says a coloured jet of light. Not that AK is the only 
curse that can kill, (I think). In the original write of MW I pointed 
out that all ghosts in HP had died prematurely, (but that is another 
thread!), so I guessed that those people that did not chose to stay 
in the real world as ghosts, ended up in the Department of Mysteries 
behind the veil. (How else would James and Lily know to be proud of 
Harry in GoF.) Using the fact that Sirius had not died, I allowed him 
to be able to leave the veil as a "not quite ghost" similar to 
Voldemort after he attacked Harry (Round One). Sirius then persuaded 
Dumbledore to cast the spell from GoF, that Pettigrew cast to 
resurrect Voldemort. Sirius then performed the curse on Lily and 
James. Here is the extract from the original attempt of MW, from Ch4:

""Dead?" asked James, "sorry to disappoint but we are not
dead. Nor 
were we ever. Wizards that have their lives prematurely taken from 
them, do not die in the same way as wizards who die naturally. Have 
you not noticed that all the school ghosts died prematurely?"
"So if you were not dead, were you ghosts?" asked Mrs.
Weasley.
"No, as we chose not to. We died as a family or at least we meant 
to," Lily stole a glance at Harry, "so we decided to let go.
Then we 
found ourselves locked up in the Department of Mysteries."
"Why were you locked up?" asked Ron. James continued,
"Well the 
Ministry decided that it was better to keep all the souls of people 
who had been killed as both a punishment and as a safeguard. 
Punishment for getting killed and a safeguard as firstly, you do not 
want wizards with revenge running around the country to kill the 
person that killed them as you would have a problem, and secondly, to 
stop the Dark Magic needed to re-awake the remnants from being
used."
"So how did you come back?" asked Ron.
"Well Sirius convinced Dumbledore to cast the spell on him and
let 
him use it on us. Dumbledore is, as you know, the greatest wizard of 
our time and he understands things and trusts people where others 
would not. He trusted Sirius and understood what he wanted, so he 
helped him."

So while I know believe James and Lily will not come back in JKR's 
books, I like Saswan, believe that Sirius will return!!

Alternatively, Harry vs Voldemort turns into the Apocalypse and all 
the dead return, perhaps; probably not.

Chris
Read my fanfic at http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/merlin_legacy