Sirius & the 2 Book Rule (was: Funerals are for the living)

[stickbook41]

No: HPFGUIDX 128286

Kemper:
But Harry needs a good cry in a safe situation where others may be
feeling similarly about needless loss.

stickbook:
The phrase "needless loss" struck me oddly.  Was Sirius's tumble
through the Veil needless?

One of things I like best about these books is that almost nothing is
waste (I'm thinking of one particularly obscure passage in GoF about
Harry looking out a window and seeing an eagle owl fly by, but I can't
find the dratted page!), which helps the author keep Harry, as well as
the rest of us, on a need-to-know basis.

Like Harry, I still have a hard time believing Sirius is gone; and
since JKR rightly insists on sticking to her rule about the dead
staying dead, perhaps *the fact that Sirius died* will be very
important--much more so than a tool to introduce Harry (and us) to the
concept of the Veil.  I would much rather see it pan out that Sirius's
death significantly enables something that helps Harry defeat
Voldemort (as opposed to coming back as a ghost or whatever), so that
his loss is not needless in the slightest.

But given the 2-book rule (as TigerPatronus pointed out in the
insightful post 128202) we may have to wait until Book 7 to see
Sirius's death come to any real fruition.  Crumbs!!

-stickbook