okay i don't suppose anyone who might be reading this hasn't read the fifth rowling installment yet (other than tjan, but you had your chance) and since it is now being openly discussed on the humanz lists there's no need to be silent as the grave for fear of spoilers. so -

so -

now i can wail -

sirius!!!

i wouldn't even have minded as much if it had been mcgonagall, as we all thought it would be. i adore mcgonagall, i do. it's just that - i'd rather she had anyone at all - except sirius and lupin.

yen's little cousin comforts that - since he merely fell through nothingness and no one actually saw him die, he might come back again, just like gandalf. only it wouldn't be like rowling, and anyway if she did that would be an unsatisfactory and unsatisfying - you'd know that sirius had died, and anything else is just reader appeasement and rather backhanded.

though gary oldman's going to be sirius and i approve. i suppose i could think of other people i'd like better though oldman does have that wounded, handsome look i expect of sirius and a slight maniac glint. mm hmm.