Quick Questionnaire

[dungrollin]

No: HPFGUIDX 168550

Where have all the exciting theories gone? ::sigh::


A quick questionnaire for you:
Sirius Black "had to die" (according to JKR) to:

a) Hide some facts about Regulus's history which Harry can't be 
allowed to find out too easily. 

b) Keep ESE!Snape's cover – "I don't care if Dumbledore thinks you've 
reformed, I know better –" OotP, Ch24 UK p459. Sirius had begun to 
suspect Snape was cheating on DD, and had to be kept quiet.

c) Because he would have been a complication throughout HBP, Harry 
would have told him his suspicions about Snape and Malfoy, and Sirius 
would never have let DD hear the end of it until he got some answers. 
Answers which JKR wants to keep for Book 7.

d) Hide some facts about Snape/Lily/James history
 It's more 
convincing that Lupin was out of the loop than Sirius.

e) Keep ESE!Lupin's cover – Sirius had begun to find Lupin's 
behaviour a bit suspect, so the werewolf had him silenced.

f) Hide some facts about horcruxes – Sirius (somehow) has a load of 
information about Voldemort and his horcruxes (not through Reggie – 
see a) that was unavailable to DD, Harry and all others. Perhaps his 
family had something to do with Grindelwald?

g) Keep SecretAgent!Peter's cover – I'm sure someone could find a way 
to make this work


h) To hide something about what happened at GH – was Sirius using the 
invisibility cloak?

i) Because JKR wants Harry to be alone. Harry would have found it 
difficult to keep secrets from Sirius, and she didn't want anyone to 
help on the Horcrux hunt. 

j) ESE!Sirius was taken out by the bad guys because he was in danger 
of blowing his cover, that's why Narcissa didn't blink when Snape 
claimed to have helped - Kreacher never passed any information.


I've kept them brief, lest I be thought to be encouraging one-liner 
posts, so explain, embellish, extemporise, and above all extend the 
list if you think of other possibilities.

Dungrollin