Return from the Underworld in Greek Mythology (Re: Sirius Black Poll)

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 104627

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sp. sot." 
> Well, first they both are trapped in a place with no obvious 
escape, Sirius in a office high in a tower and Gandalf high on the 
tower of Isengard. They both escape with the help of a flying 
creature, Sirius with buckbeak, Gandalf with an eagle. And they both 
seem to die, well at least Gandalf when everything seem to be over, 
Sirius when Dumbledore appears and everyone else stopped fighting 
and Gandalf when the Balrock had fallen in the abyss. I wonder if 
Sirius will follow the same course. I actually think it would be 
very exiting I would be glad to discuss it.


GEO: Your analogy is pretty flawed I think. Unlike Sirius, Gandalf 
was the equivalent of an angel/minor god or spirit in Tolkien's 
cosmology and he couldn't exactly die in the same sense that humans 
could die and furthermore he was sent back after he died by the God 
of Tolkien's universe while in comparison such a force doesn't 
appeart to be active in Rowling's universe.