Sirius' death (was: Dept of Mysteries Veil Room)

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 114436


Aura:
> > All we have is circumstantial evidence: characters have said 
> that Sirius is dead, but no one saw a body and no one 
> specifically said what that veil was. 
 
Pippin: 
> I think JKR made Sirius's death difficult to accept in order to 
> engage the readers in Harry's struggle to accept it. To bring 
> Sirius back to life would make that struggle pointless, besides 
> ruining the  mystery plot -- there's got to be a reason JKR was  
> vague about the spell that struck Sirius and where it came from.


SSSusan: 
Yes!  This is what I was trying to get at when I wrote, upthread, 
that I thought her point was that death sucks, *especially* when it 
happens in such a way that it isn't *easy* to grasp & accept.  No 
body?  No blood?  No long illness?  No advance warning?  It's "not 
fair!" but death happens that way.  For us readers to empathize with 
what we're likely to see of Harry's struggle to come to grips with 
Sirius' death, JKR painted it as frustratingly ambiguous for ALL of 
us.  

Not going to touch your dangling bait on the vague spell, though, 
Pippin, because I know where *that* will lead us. :-)

Siriusly Snapey Susan