Sirius/Tonks

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No: HPFGUIDX 93710

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Berit Jakobsen" 
<belijako at o...> wrote:
> 
> My two knuts: Sirius is dead *because* he's not a coward. A live 
> Sirius in this scenario would not be "our" Sirius as we have 
learned 
> to know him in the HP series. Either way, it means you can't have 
> your Sirius :-(  Let the poor guy rest and enjoy the memory of 
him :-)

Bookworm:
Call me idealist or naive if you want, but I believe JKR when she 
says that Sirius Black is dead. Here's a quote from her interview 
with Jeremy Paxton just before OoP was released:

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". 
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/3004594.stm)

This has been referenced many times, but I guess some people just 
don't want to believe it. I seems pretty straight-forward to me, 
unlike some of her other cagey answers.

Ravenclaw Bookworm