- and there he was, crumpled on the ground in a way that bodies just didn't bend when they were alive. "No," said Sirius, this time out loud. He heard his voice break, and didn't care. "No, no, no - " as if denying it would help, but James" eyes were open and glassy and empty, and shaking him would not wake him up, no matter how much he begged. This wasn't supposed to happen, this was the whole reason Sirius was fighting, this was why he went around bragging that the Potters had made him their Secret-Keeper and daring the Death Eaters to come after him (don't pay attention to Peter), to prevent exactly this from happening. How - how -