"Bad" Sirius (was Re: Prophecy wording)

[Kathryn Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 128101


> Julie:
> If Sirius was indeed a "bad guy," why did JKR say she cried 
> when she wrote the chapter in which he died?  (I know that's 
> not canon as contained in the books, but it was an interview.)


Kathy writes:
So she liked him.  Either that or she felt sorry for Harry for 
losing Sirius, or she cried for a wasted life.  I have met many 
"not good guys" who are also very charming.  Maybe I just have a 
nasty suspicious mind.  I just had too many questions in my mind 
about him, and the circumstances surrounding him.  We'll find out eventually.  JKR during one of her interviews said that she thought 
she had already given too much away after speaking of Sirius in the present tense instead of the past tense.  He may be back somehow.  
I wonder, too, why Bellatrix said to Voldemort" I was fighting the animagus, Black."  Why would he be referred to as "the animagus?"  
Why would that be important?  Are we to believe that Pettigrew is referred to as the animagus, Pettigrew?  It just seems to be an 
awkward way for JKR to put it.
                                                                                                                                            
KJ