rynne | Two things on Sirius

Ehehe yes me again so soon after my last entry. :p But I just remembered something that I wanted to post about. Two things, really, both about Sirius. I don't think I've ever really taken a stance on the first issue yet, so I am now.

1. Yes, he is really dead.
Sirius is dead because he is a tragic hero. Bear in mind that it's been a couple years since I really studied what tragic heroes are, but from what I remember, Sirius fits the mold nearly perfectly.
1. He is born to privilege, almost royalty (or at least the Blacks consider themselves so. A powerful family, at any rate).
2. He has a tragic flaw, recklessness.
3. His tragic flaw of recklessness has brought him lower and lower, off his pedestal and out of privilege, as through it the Prank happens, he goes after Peter and is thrown in Azkaban, is pretty much insane through most of PoA, and finally, is completely miserable in Grimmauld Place.
4. His tragic flaw leads to his death, because he rushed to the DoM despite precautions set for his safety, and taunted Bellatrix, causing her to hex him and him to fall through the veil.

Sirius is a tragic hero, and tragic heroes die, because of their own mistakes. They are not brought back to life. I'm very sure that JKR realizes Sirius is a tragic hero (I daresay he was created with that literary convention in mind), and I can't imagine her breaking it by raising him back to privilege--life. I just can't. This is also why I can't really buy all the theories on why he isn't dead, like how it was really Bode's death that JKR was talking about, so Sirius could really be alive. He's nearly the very model of what I learned a tragic hero is, and because of that, I think that even if he is alive, he's not going to survive the series.

Do I think we'll see him again? Yes. I think Harry will eventually have to go to the underworld (go to Death in order to find out how to kill someone who's almost immortal--makes sense to me) or something, and Sirius will be his spirit-guide, or some other useful thing like that. But I don't think we'll see him again in the land of the living, not the way that we have been.

Do I still enjoy resurrection fics? HELL. YES. I like happy things, like sunshine, and unicorns cavorting in fields of daisies, and other things that could possibly drive people to sweetness-overload nausea (which could also explain why I like OBHWF). And like Sirius being alive and living happily ever after with Remus *g*. I like reading fanfics about that, and they're one of my favorite genres, as long as they're plausible. I expect that

thistlerose's, once she actually writes it, will be my favorite HP fanfic ever. Hell, I'm even writing one myself! (Off and on, but still.) I adore resurrection fics. But liking it in fics does not mean I want to see it in canon, because even if fanfic writers are allowed to explore different scenarios and extrapolate whatever the hell we want, I want JKR to follow through on the literary devices she sets up in her books, and I think she's set up Sirius as a tragic hero.

Anyone is, of course, welcome to tell me that what I think a tragic hero is isn't correct. Like I said, it's been a couple years since I learned what one was, and I may very well have forgotten something. *shrugs* This is just what I think.

Now for the second thing, which is ENTIRELY FRIVOLOUS and meant ALL IN GOOD FUN and should NOT BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY. XD

2. Sirius is so someone's bitch.
I vote Remus's! :D

My theory is that, since his family disowned him and doesn't want to claim him, he wants someone else to. And that because he's a Good Dog, he wants a Master. *g* (And inspired by that, you know what would be perfect? Fic/art of Remus and Sirius doing it doggy style, Remus on top, and with Sirius wearing a collar and leash, with Remus holding the leash. Don't suppose someone would write/draw it for me...*puppy eyes* :p)

Anyway. Yes. Sirius is so someone's bitch, and I say Remus's, just because. And also because of "Sit down, Sirius." And how Sirius obeyed. Such a good doggie! *g* This calls for the Footpad icon, doesn't it? :D

Okay, time to shut up now. XD Especially as I have somewhere to be in less than eight hours and should probably be asleep, not theorizing...