Robin wrote:
Ok, there are a billion ways to bring Sirius back, but most are unlikely. I've heard EVERYTHING from it-wasn't-sirius-who-fell-but-really-someone-using-polyjuice-potion, to getting a favor from god and cloning the body to bring him back to, to an ancient potion that Dumbledore didn't mention so he didn't get Harry's hopes up, to Harry using a time turner and I could go on and on.... anyway, if she wanted to do it, she could.
One I HAVEN'T heard (until I made it up) is "JKR is witholding loads of info on Broderick Bode, which is sufficiently awesome to bring her to tears when he dies." Which I made up in parody, but was alluring for a while until I got knocked back to my senses. It's the DEATH ROOM.
If J.K. Rowling is really cruel (and she is, if you've ever re-read OotP) she might treat ye of sandy bowler to a sequence I call "The Many-Coloured Rider," after Tolkien's legacy of "pulling a Gandalf." It'll be a tough one for me to resist as well, but I'm going to have to.
Also, when JKR shot down Neville/Luna, she also shot down Harry/Luna, I've realized. She said it was because Neville and Luna don't have enough in common, but, warm fuzzy dialogue aside, they actually have more in common than Harry and Luna do. Curse of the Singing Brussels Sprouts! I was really hoping for that one...
Do what you will; but I will hinder it if I may.
-- Eowyn of the Mark