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

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 118120


 
> > 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>
> 
> 
> 
> Alla:
> 
> We'll just have to agree to disagree on this one then. 
> I do believe that JKR markets her books really well and while I 
> would prefer that she would not say that prior to OOP hitting the 
> book stores, I see nothing awful in Sirius' resurrection.
> 
> 
> As I said there are many deaths in the books who are final. If 
this 
> is not death in the first place, there are no parallels with 
reality 
> and inevitability of death in the first place. I trust that JKRcan 
> pull it off believably, if not, oh well, there is always 
> fanfiction :)

Potioncat:
I know we are not supposed to do "me too" posts, and I know JKR 
hasn't asked us to vote, but I really think Sirius, regretfully, is 
dead and he will stay dead.  So I am with Pippin on this one.