Faking Sirius' Death?

[snapesmate]

No: HPFGUIDX 91666

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sophierom" <sophierom at y...> 
wrote:

>  <snip>
>  In any case, "properly dead" keeps ringing in my ears.  I think if 
> she wanted us to know that Sirius was "properly dead," she would 
have
> provided better proof, rather than leaving us with lots of 
ambiguity.
> 
> 
> Sophierom:
> Entropy, I also like your theory but I'm torn ... as much as I 
agree 
> with your above statement, and as much as I would like to see 
Sirius 
> alive, I feel like it would be a little cheap of JKR to pull Sirius 
> out of a hiding place somewhere and say, "Tada! He's been alive all 
> this time!"
> 
> I wonder if the ambiguity surrounding Sirius's death is instead 
> meant to make us feel like Harry: we're always hoping, beyond all 
> hope, that Sirius isn't really dead.  <snip>> 
> Sophierom


I must admit, I too have latched onto JKR's "properly dead" comment 
with a death grip! (pun fully intended, LOL!) I want Sirius back in 
Harry's life.  So while I am grasping at straws, why, after getting 
hit "squarely in the chest", did Sirius go flying in a "graceful 
arch, down through the veil"?  McGonagall got hit in the chest with 
multiple stunning spells and didn't get launched flying, soaring or 
skittering anywhere.  She just got sent to St. Mungo's after 
basically falling over, if memory serves me.  I know we were not told 
what colour the jet of light was or who cast it. (that hit Sirius)  
We are meant to think it was Bellatrix and another stunning curse 
(red light).  If it was stupefy and Sirius was alive when he fell 
through the veil, would that make him less "properly" dead?  Does 
that mean if you could find him on that other plane of existence you 
could guide him back to this one?
Lynnette, who thinks Snape IS a good guy, even if he is not a very 
NICE guy.