Death Clues
WARNING: DON'T READ BELOW IF YOU HAVEN'T READ OotP!
I have discovered that J.K. Rowling has told that Sirius was going to die ... right from the third
book onwards ... but very discreetly ...
On page 60 of the American edition of OotP just as they enter 12 Grimmauld Place, it says "The other's
hushed voices were giving Harry an odd feeling of foreboding; it was as though they had just entered the house of a dying
man."
On Harry's first night at Grimmauld Place, the entire house sits down to dinner. In total, 13 of them
eat together. According to Trelawney in PoA, when 13 people dine together, the first one to rise is the first to die. No prizes
for guessing who rises first here: "Sirius started to rise from his chair."
Sirius' house is 12, Grimmauld place. The Grim is a sign that death is coming. -Thanks Kristin
When Fred and George were levitating dinner onto the table at 12 Grimmauld Place, they lost control
of one of the knives. It dropped and embedded itself into the table right very near Sirius. This could be foreshadowing Sirius'
death.
On page 462 of the UK version, it says "Harry had an unpleasant constricted sensation in his chest;
he did not want to say goodbye to Sirius. He had a bad feeling about this parting; he didn't know when they would next see
each other." This speaks for itself; the part about them never seeing each other again was true in the end.
A lot of people say that Sirius' animagus form (big, black, shaggy dog) is uncannily similar to the
Grim and so his death was coming from when we first met him in PoA.
In chapter 9, Sirius says, "It's a matter of time before Voldemort moves into the open; once he does,
the whole ministry's going to be begging us to forgive them. And I'm not sure I'll be accepting their apology." Why? Because
he's dead by then. -Thanks LizzyBeth.
In Book 1, Chapter 15, when Hagrid, Harry and Hermione run into the Centaurs, Ronan makes the pronouncement
"Always the innocent are the first victims." Everyone thought Sirius was guilty, but he turned out to be innocent.
On page 477 of the American edition of OotP, Sirius says "This is how it is-- this is why you're not
in the Order-- you don't understand -- there are things worth dying for!"
In St. Mungos, when they are going to visit Mr. Weasley- 'They climbed a flight of stairs and entered
the "Creature-Induced Injuries" corridor, where the second door on the right bore the words 'DANGEROUS' DAI LLEWELLYN WARD:
SERIOUS BITES.' If you put these words on a sign, they would read
Creature-Induced Injuries
Dangerous
Dai Llewellyn
Ward
Serious Bites
Take the first word of each of these and what do you get get? Creature Dangeous Dai Serious?
No - Kreacher dangerous, Die Sirius...
Quotes
"I will allow you to perform an essential task that many of my followers would give there right hands to perform."
- Voldemort
"I will only truly have left this school none here are loyal to me... Help will always
be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it."
-Dumbledore
"The first word out of those poor Petrified people's mouths will be 'It was Hagrid.' Frankly, I'm astounded
Professor McGonagall thinks all these security measures are necessary."
-Gilderoy Lockhart
"There is no good and evil, there is only power...and those too weak to seek it."
-Quirrel
"If you made a better rat than a human, that's not much to boast about."
-Sirius Black
"To the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
-Albus Dumbledore
"Never trust anything that can think for itself, if you can't see where it keeps its brain."
-Arthur
Weasley
"It is our choices Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
-Dumbledore
"You should have died! Died rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!"
-Sirius
Black
"Fear of a name increases fear of a thing itself."
-Dumbledore
"Voldemort...is my past, present and future..."
-Tom Riddle
"When a wizard goes over to the dark side there's nothin', and no one matters to 'em anymore."
-Hagrid
"Haven't I already told you that killing Mudbloods doesn't matter to me any more? For many months now,
my new target has been -- you."
-Tom Riddle
"Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them."
-Dumbledore
"Quite the double act, Sirius Black and James Potter."
-Madame Rosmerta
"His eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad
his hair as dark as a blackboard,
I wish he was
mine, he's really divine,
The hero who conquered the dark lord."
-Ginny
"I'm not blamin' yeh...but I gotta tell yeh, I thought you two'd value yer friend more'n broomsticks
or rats. Tha's all."
-Hagrid
"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
-Sirius Black
"Remember Cedric. Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is
right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path
of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory."
-Dumbledore
"Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world."
-Ron
"I don't need a cloak to become invisible."
-Dumbledore
"I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death -- if you aren't as big a bunch
of dunderheads as I usually have to teach."
-Snape
"Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort can't understand, its love."
-Dumbledore
"Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London
Underground."
-Dumbledore
"I seem to remember telling you both that I would have to expel you if you broke any more school rules,"
said Dumbledore. Ron opened his mouth in horror. "Which goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words," Dumbledore
went on, smiling.
"And Potter -- do try and win, won't you? Or we'll be out of the running for the eighth year in a row,
as Professor Snape was kind enough to remind me only last night..."
-Prof. McGonagall
"I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me."
-Harry
"What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed? Only innocent lives,
Peter."
-Sirius Black
"There's enough filth on my robes without you touching them."
-Sirius Black
"Are you insane? Of course I want to leave the Dursleys! Have you got a house? When can I move in?"
-Harry
"Not at all up to your usual standard, Hermione," he said. "Only one out of three, I'm afraid. I have
not been helping Sirius get into the castle and I certainly don't want Harry dead...but I won't deny that I am a werewolf."
-Lupin
"He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison
and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though...keep up with news...check if I'm happy..."
-Harry
"Please, sir," said Hermione, whose hand was still in the air, "the werewolf differs from the true
wolf in several small ways. The snout of the werewolf--"
"That is the second time you have spoken out of turn, Miss Granger,"
Snape said coolly. "Five more points from Gryffindor for being an insufferable know-it-all."
Hermione went very red, put
down her hand and stared at the floor with her eyes full of tears. It was a mark of how much the class loathed Snape, they
were all glaring at him, because every one of them had called Hermione a know-it-all at least once, and Ron, who told Hermione
she was a know-it-all at least twice a week, said loudly, "You asked us a question and she knows the answer! Why ask if you
don't want to be told?"
"I still don't like your tone, boy. If you can speak of your beatings in that casual way, they clearly
aren't hitting you hard enough. Petunia, I'd write to them if I were you. Make it clear that you approve the use of extreme
force in this boy's case."
-Aunt Marge
"You might even have a scar now, if you're lucky...that's what you want, isn't it?"
-Harry to Ron
"There you go, Harry! You weren't being thick after all -- you were just showing moral fiber!"
-Ron
"You are truly your father's son, Harry..."
-Sirius Black
"'Course Dumbledore trusts you. He's a trusting man, isn't he? Believes in second chances. But me --
I say there are spots that don't come off, Snape. Spots that never come off, know what I mean?"
-Moody