Sirius' death

[Lea]

No: HPFGUIDX 127734


Katrina <katrinabarnard at y...> wrote:
> <snip> I thought that Sirius's death was lame. 
> 
> -Pause while you gasp with shock-
> 
> I mean he was Harry's mentor/surrogate father/best friend and 
> a key character (I thought) for the future books and instead 
> of dying bravely in battle he falls through a doorway!
> 
> I can hypothesise that JK may have been trying to demonstrate 
> the frailty of life or how the dead are still close to us. But 
> I feel that it could have been expressed in a more dramatic and 
> fitting way. <snip>


You may be surprised to know that you aren't alone *no gasp from 
this reader*.  

IMHO, there was so much hype and speculation surrounding the death 
pre-release of OotP, that when I read the actual passage/event, it 
didn't live up to it all (kind of like a movie that gets rave 
reviews, and you sit in the theater and wonder what movie they 
actually saw).  

While his death scene seemed *lame* to me too, JKR must have had a 
reason to portray it the way she did.  Since little is known about 
the veil, there are many possibilities.  Could someone come back?  
Is there significance to falling through veil in the manner he did?  We obviously haven't seen the last of the mysterious veil.  

~ Lea