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

[c_robocker]

No: HPFGUIDX 90538

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

I recall that in one of JKR's interviews, she said that there was a 
death coming that was going to be horrible to write but 'has to 
be'.  
(link: 
http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/quickquotes/articles/2001/1201-bbc-staff.htm) In a later interview about the OotP, she said that she had 
cried after writing the a scene in the book where she killed a 
character.  I took both interviews to be talking about the death of 
Sirius.  (Dangerous assumption, I know, with two more books to 
come.)  What struck me was the comment that it 'has to be'.  That 
makes me think that the reason she did it was a major plot point.  

Perhaps the purpose of the 'death' of Sirius is the 1) influence of 
the event on Harry that shapes him to handle the future. 

Or perhaps the veil is something else altogether, a one-way 
transport of some type to place and/or time, and where/when ever it 
took Sirius, 2) it took him where/when that he can do something to 
bring about the ultimate victory over V.

Then again, the discussion with Luna makes me think that Harry will 
3) see his family and Sirius in an afterlife.  

I sort of think the second is a good possibility - after such a 
tragic life and unjust suffering, it would give Sirius the 
opportunity to clear his name.  And then the third is good as well - 
just hopefully not at the end of book 7!



CRobo, who is waving 'hello' to the list elves and uses the 
words 'some' and 'perhaps' and 'maybe' an awful lot when thinking 
about HP.