[HPforGrownups] Re: Faking Sirius' Death?

[Cindy Jenkins]

No: HPFGUIDX 91502

> :: Entropy :: wrote:
> I've been going over the whole "Sirius is dead" thing for a while, and
> wanted to put everything together. Besides JKR's ominous quote that no
> one comes back once they are "properly dead" (what is properly dead,
> anyway?), I've been trying to look for clues as to whether Sirius
> actually may or may not return.

Well, I think he's gone...  There's a number of JKR quotes out there about
how his death is sudden, arbritrary, and senseless.  Here's one:    "I think
what I was trying to do with the death in this book was show how very
arbitrary and sudden death is. This is a death where you didn't have a big
death bed scene. It happened almost accidentally and that is one of the very
cruel things about death and they're now in a war situation where that
really does happen, where one minute you're talking to your friend and the
next minute he's gone. It's so shocking and so inexplicable. "Where did they
go?" I found it upsetting to write, because I knew what it would mean to
Harry."

Sawsan wrote:
>My thought is that the veil is not death itself, but  perhaps a porthole. I
don't
>think everyone whoever died in the WW had been thrown into the arch of
>the veil.

I kind of thought it was an execution chamber...  If a witch or wizard were
to be executed, they'd be tossed through the veil.  I have nothing to
support this, but it seems to make sense.

Cindy