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

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 114441


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mhbobbin" <mhbobbin at y...> 
wrote:
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mhbobbin" <mhbobbin at y...> 
> > Julia:
> > Yes... I would really love to believe that she will someday bring 
> him back but  I'm afraid to say that it will never gonna happen! 
IMO 
> the Sirius' death  represents JKR's mother's death. It's normal 
that 
> the writer wrtites about things s/he knows - it's some kind of 
> dealing with it. So if in the real life JKR's  mother died and she 
> didn't come back after a month or two we can be almost  sure that 
> Sirius won't come back either.  

mhbobbin: 
> We often fall back to the argument that JKR wouldn't write 
something 
> because blah blah blah. We all do it related to a variety of 
> theories. It may be a good argument, as Julia makes above, and many 
> others have made as well, but it is not definitive. For example, in 
> this argument --that it is important for JKR personally, that she's 
> working through her mother's death and the process will help Harry 
> etc.--can also be argued that she's indulging in a fantasy of what 
> she would like to happen instead. While her experience informs her 
> writing, it can inform it either way, IMO.

One reported event from JKR's writing of OOP - that she collapsed in 
tears after sending him through the veil, and telling her husband 
that she couldn't take his suggestion to rewrite the scene, because 
(quoting from memory) "If you're a children's novelist, then you have 
to be a ruthless murderer" - indicates to me that Sirius is genuinely 
dead. Even if Harry somehow visits Black in Veilville, Black is still 
dead and will not return - and very likely does not want to return - 
to an earthly existence.

Would JKR's emotional reaction in writing this scene have been so 
intense if she was planning to bring Sirius back in a later book? 
Then, Sirius' death becomes more like Lupin's resignation at the end 
of Year Three - it's sad that he's leaving, but we all knew he'd be 
back.

   - CMC