Sirius' body WAS:Re: Dumbledore in book 7 (Was: It's more complex than that....)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 164847

Carol earlier:
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> I suspect that Harry will encounter Dead!Dumbledore as well as the
spirits of his parents, and Sirius Black still in his body but dead
and unable to return. (Harry, I predict, will take Sirius's body back,
foreshadowed be taking Cedric's body back in GoF.)
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> Alla:
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> I had seen you making this prediction in the past and still cannot 
> figure out what narrative purpose for the story that would serve.
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Carol responds:
The point would be to give Sirius Black the proper funeral he never
received and to give Harry a chance to accept his godfather's death as
he accepts Dumbledore's. It would also provide a chance for the WW to
be told Black's real story. I don't think the MoM ever publicly
acknowledged its blunder regarding him. To use a jargon term that I
hate, bringing Sirius's body back would give his story "closure."

With regard to the main plot, if one of Harry's Voldie-acquired powers
is possession, and his method of killing Voldemort is to force him
through the Veil using Love as his weapon, possessing Sirius's body
would provide Harry's soul with a means of transportation back to the
WW. (Voldie's own fractured soul would remain behind with his body.
He, like Sirius Black, would be truly dead. But Harry's soul would
only be, so to speak, along for the ride, and he, unlike the others,
could return.)

I like this version of events because it gives Sirius Black's death a
purpose beyond a lesson in compassion for Harry (understanding the
suffering that others have endured because of Voldemort)by providing a
means for Harry to go beyond the Veil and return alive, and it enables
Harry to destroy Voldemort through a sacrificial impulse without dying
himself or committing murder.

Carol, hoping that explains why I keep returning to this idea and why
I genuinely hope that I'm right