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Essay. Long.
This has been brewing since OotP cut my heart out.
Is Sirius dead? Why on earth should we think he's not? Isn't it unfair to not go all Elizabeth Kubler-Ross-y on him and just be stuck on denial? But why should we be certain of anything until the last word of Book 7 is written?
(And how can I write post-OotP fic that deals with his death when I don't want to deal with it?)
The argument is not so simple as "is he really dead" or "will he come back"--it also centers on whether anything of him will ever be seen again. It's a magical universe, after all. Some readers are certain he is not dead; some think he is dead but that he will be seen again in an afterlife setting or in a mirror or somesuch. And there are those who think that any such glimpse of him would be cheating the emotional impact that Rowling wanted to create with his death.
So. Essay. Point and counterpoint.
(I would like it if my position on what follows--where I believe the argument and where I believe the counter-argument--was not obvious, and that the reader couldn't tell which was my position, but I don't think that's likely. I'm not that good at disguising bias.)
( Will Sirius Black Reappear? Fourteen Arguments For and Against. )
This has been brewing since OotP cut my heart out.
Is Sirius dead? Why on earth should we think he's not? Isn't it unfair to not go all Elizabeth Kubler-Ross-y on him and just be stuck on denial? But why should we be certain of anything until the last word of Book 7 is written?
(And how can I write post-OotP fic that deals with his death when I don't want to deal with it?)
The argument is not so simple as "is he really dead" or "will he come back"--it also centers on whether anything of him will ever be seen again. It's a magical universe, after all. Some readers are certain he is not dead; some think he is dead but that he will be seen again in an afterlife setting or in a mirror or somesuch. And there are those who think that any such glimpse of him would be cheating the emotional impact that Rowling wanted to create with his death.
So. Essay. Point and counterpoint.
(I would like it if my position on what follows--where I believe the argument and where I believe the counter-argument--was not obvious, and that the reader couldn't tell which was my position, but I don't think that's likely. I'm not that good at disguising bias.)
( Will Sirius Black Reappear? Fourteen Arguments For and Against. )