Sirius's Future

[Hannah]

No: HPFGUIDX 117871


> > Katya said:
> > [Some very interesting stuff that I'm snipping b/c I don't have 
> any
> > specific comments on it]
> > 
> > ITA. Have you depressing naysayers never watched tv? No 
> body, no death. At least, no certain death. And portals never do 
> what you think they do. The whole thing was wayyy too dodgy to 
> be a straight-out death.
> > 
> 
> Pippin
> Oh, JKR, she knows her fans, yes she does. She dares us to 
> ask her whether Sirius is really dead, and all the time she's 
> laughing in her sleeve at us, because the question we *should* 
> be asking is who killed him.
> 
> I think we'll see Sirius again as a memory, but he won't be 
> coming back from the portal, because if he did, he'd have to tell 
> Harry who killed him. (Harry! Revenge!) As Harry is far more 
> decisive than Hamlet, it wouldn't be much of a story
> 
> I think canon will show that we *all* die with our lives 
unfinished, 
> for they continue elsewhere. Not my personal belief, but that 
> seems to be where canon is tending.
> .
> Pippin

Hannah: I just love that, Pippin!  I'm not sure about the continuing 
elsewhere bit either, but definitely about dying with our lives 
unfinished.  With Sirius, JKR wanted to show just that.  Why does 
everyone want and hope (and in some cases believe) that Sirius will 
be back?  Because so much is left undone, because his death is so 
sudden, so abrupt, so untimely.  And that is just why I believe he's 
not going to be back.  He's not just going to nip back from beyond 
the veil to tie up all the loose ends, because life (and death) 
isn't like that, and I think that's what JKR is trying to tell us.

There are many ways we can see and hear about Sirius without him 
having to return.  A letter left by him, pensieve scenes, the 
memories of his friends...  I know a lot of people will be 
disappointed if he doesn't return, but I for one will feel a bit 
miffed if he *does*.

As for who killed him... puppetmaster!DD.  That guy has a lot to 
answer for.  I wonder what Sirius would have made of the prophecy?  
Did he know about it, or exactly what it said?  I can't imagine he'd 
have been happy about letting Harry go along with it.  Maybe he had 
become too much of a liability to the masterplan for DD to pass up 
such a good opportunity to blast him through the veil and blame it 
all on Bella.

Hannah, ducking assorted rotten veg thrown by DD fans.