Resurrection (sort of)

[Cheryl]

No: HPFGUIDX 162232

> One key point you are overlooking, these people did not
> return from the 'dead', they returned from the 'PRESUMED
> Dead'. That is quite a different thing.
***Nope, didn't overlook it.  Just wondered if there were any 
more "presumed dead" that I'd forgotten.

> Quirrel is absolutely dead.
***I agree.  Quirrel is dust.

> Barty Jr, same, his death was a reasonable assumption
> given the apparent circumstance, but we learn that 
> circumstances were not as they seemed, and he was alive
> all along.
***Right, this was a case of 'presumed dead because someone told 
Harry he was dead.'

> Regulus Black, now that is a stretch. We have no 
> indications or even hints that he might still be alive.
***Exactly!  See above!  Someone TOLD Harry that Regulus was dead.

> So, no Regulus returning from the dead.
***Wheeee!  I actually disagree with you, for once!!  I think he's 
alive.  In fact, I have a little theory that I have not once seen 
even vaguely suggested in fandom!  I'm so excited!  (Rubs hands 
together and cackles in a way that the Grinch would envy.)
Unfortunately, I can't tell anyone yet because I'm writing my own 
version of Book 7 and it would really spoil the ending.  So I can't 
tell until it's finished.  But it neatly ties up a whole bunch of 
little threads that JKR left dangling all over the place.

> So, while all hope is not lost, it 
> is EXTREMELY thin and very unlikely. For all intent and
> purpose, Sirius is gone.
***I have to agree here.  I think our little doggie man is gone 
forever.  (Sobs into pillow.)

> Albus, admitedly there is some ever so small teeny tiny
> element of ambiguity in his death.
***Hopefully, because he really annoyed me in the last two books.  
Actually, he started annoying me the minute he left Harry at the 
Dursleys, but an issue we won't get into again!

> I know lots of people are hoping for one character or 
> another to return from the dead, or technically dead,
> and I am hoping for it too, but I think the chances are
> very very very very very very very slim.
***Except Regulus.  LOL!

Cheryl