Faking Sirius' Death?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 91590

dumbledore11214 said:
> Again, could someome please direct me to interview where 
JKR says out  loud that Sirius is really and truly dead and never 
ever coming back.  It will shatter my dellusions, but that's Ok. :o) 
Yes, she said how  hard it was for her to write  a scene, etc., but I 
don't remember  anything about Sirius being truly dead.<
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June 19, 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/3004594.stm

JEREMY PAXMAN: And is there going to be a death in this book? 

JK ROWLING: Yes. A horrible, horrible 

JEREMY PAXMAN: A horrible death of a significant figure. 

JK ROWLING: Yeah. I went into the kitchen having done it.... 

JEREMY PAXMAN: What, killed this person? 

JK ROWLING: Yeah. Well I had re-written the death, re-written it 
and that was it. It was definitive. And the person was definitely 
dead. And I walked into the kitchen crying and Neil said to me, 
"What on earth is wrong?" and I said, "Well, I've just killed the 
person". Neil doesn't know who the person is. But I said, "I've 
just killed the person. And he said, "Well, don't do it then." I 
thought, a doctor you know....and I said "Well it just doesn't work 
like that. You are writing children's books, you need to be a 
ruthless killer." 
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10/12/1999

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/quickquotes/articles/1999/109
9-connectiontransc.html

Peter, what's your guess about Lily? What's the real story of 
Harry's mother?I don't really know, but I'm guessing
that, maybe 
she is going to come back to life, maybe, in the 7th book or 
something like that. 


Well, it would be nice, but I'll tell you something. You've
raised a really interesting point there, Peter, because when I 
started writing the books, the first thing I had to decide was not 
what magic can do, but what it can't do. I had to set limits on
it 
immediately and decide what the perimeters are. One of the 
most important things I decided was that magic cannot bring 
dead people back to life. That's one of the most profound things. 
The natural laws of death applies to wizards as it applies to 
Muggles and there is no returning once you're properly dead. 
You know, they might be able to save very close to death people 
better than we can, by magic. They have certain knowledge we 
don't, but once you're dead, you're dead. So, yeah,
I'm afraid there will be no coming back for Harry's parents. 
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So, to sum up, the significant death in Book 5 is "definitely dead" 
and "once you're dead, you're dead".  Sorry about that. ::hands 
tissues around to the crew of SAD DENIAL.

Pippin