Faking Sirius' Death?

[suehpfan]

No: HPFGUIDX 91696

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Lynnette wrote:
 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. 
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Sue:

"No fewer than four stunners had shot from the figures around the 
cabin toward Professor McGonagall.  Halfway between cabin and castle 
the red beams colided with her. For a moment she looked luminous, 
illuminated  by an eerie red glow, then was lifted right off her 
feet, landed hard on her back and moved no more."  (OotP pg 721 US 
ed.)

I wonder ...Is this description intended to show us what can happen 
when someone is hit with a *really powerful* stunning spell so that 
we will recognize the spell when it is cast on Sirius? Or just to 
make sure we understand that McGonagall is incapacitated and will not 
be able to help Harry.

I think it is very odd that the color is omitted from the description 
of Bella's attack on Sirius.  I am sure there is a reason for it and 
we will probably hear more about the killing of Sirius Black, maybe 
from the lovely Bella herself.

For the record, I believe: Sirius is dead (big sad tears), Regulus is 
alive, and that Sirius, Lupin and all of the Weasleys are "good" 
people (or werewolf, which ever the case may be).
Sue