Faking Sirius' Death?

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 91592

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
> 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.<
> =======
> 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." 
> ============
> 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. 
> ========
> 
> 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



Yes, that was the interview I thought about. Yes, she was talking 
about writing a horrible death, but she is not saying anything about 
no coming back for Sirus and him being "properly dead".


Pippin, I know about my dellusions, but I'll just stand here in my 
wrongness till the end of book 7. :o)


Alla