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

[lovegrrl]

No: HPFGUIDX 90568

>"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.
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>Chris:
><snip>...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 <snip> So while I believe James and Lily will not come back
>in JKR's books, I like Saswan, believe that Sirius will return!!
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>Entropy:
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>As we know, most of JKR's very specific details usually come back to
>"haunt" us.


:::lovegrrl:::

I had thought in the past about JKR's 'very specific details' and I was
thinking, Dumbledore says, something like, only the unhappiest people come
back to us. but if we go back to the earlier books; PS we see both James and
Lily in the Mirror of Erised and it is Lily's love that protects harry, CoS
Tom Riddle appears, PoA Harry has memories of his parents brought on by the
Dementors, his patronus takes the form of his dead father and Peter
'returns' from the grave, GoF Lily and James, among others, come back as
'ghosts'... and yet we are to believe that Sirius won't appear in some form
in the future?

I know it looks like I'm clucthing at straws and I do believe that Sirius is
dead and I understand why. But to never see him again??? I think the series
is as much about what has passed as it is about what will come. Harry's
whole life is twisted up in a timewarp where events of the past imprint
themselves on the present (as is shown by the opening chapter of book one,
Tom Riddles diary, the Time Turner and Pettigrew's return to Voldemort) and
because of this I'm not sure if I believe we won't see Sirius again or, at
least, that he will have an effect on Harry's action. His death has already
incited Harry to try to kill and even though Harry couldn't do it at the
time who says he won't be able to do it in the future.

Do you see what I mean?

lovegrrl