JKR's writing in OoP (was Re: Sirius's Future)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 118118



> Alla:
> 
> Welcome back,Carol :o)
> 
> Or, if JKR brings Sirius  back, it may be for the reason unknown 
to  us yet. It may be that he never was properly dead. Harry 
already  learned the lesson the death is final (Cedric, his 
parents).
> 
> I think it would be wonderful for Harry and at least this reader if 
> the only father figure this boy ever knew reenters his life again 
:o)
 
> JKR planted the hints that Sirius may not be dead (different 
colour  of the curse, no body, etc.) I don't see it as a cheat.<
> 
> So, please, JKR, please, please :o)

Pippin:
Many children have to lose their fathers in war--and who can give 
them back? Not JKR. I think it would be awful if, having told us for 
years that a major character was going to die in OOP, she said, 
"Oops! Not properly dead,  he's just restin''" <g>

When HBP begins, Sirius will have been gone only a month or 
so, while the readers will have had two or three years, at least, to 
adjust.  It would seem strange if Harry was still in denial, while 
we have all gotten over the shock. By making it possible for us to 
deny his death if we wish, JKR is making sure at least some of 
us will be in the same place emotionally as Harry, still struggling 
to adjust to a world where Sirius is gone forever. Harry hasn't 
had to do that before. He didn't know when his parents died that 
they would never return, and Cedric's loss, though painful, didn't 
leave an  empty space in Harry's life.

Pippin