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Originally posted by sherbertlemons
I don't think that Harry will even communicate with him. JKR's said in interveiws that death has to be permanent, or else it isn't scary. I really don't think she'd halfway kill him like that. (Because, really, killing him but letting Harry still communicate with him really isn't killing him off, y'know?)
My perspective- Sirius is dead. In this world, dead means absolutely gone. The only way Harry might talk to him is some kind of device that somehow traps a shadow of him, a bit like Tom Riddle's diary but maybe interactive.
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I think you are quite right, but still things may not be quite as absolute as they seem. Remember the return of HWMNBN in GoF? The "shadow" of Harry's parents comes out of You-Know-Who's wand as it spits out recent spells. But the "shadows" communicate with Harry -- he doesn't merely see them replaying an old event, but they actually advise him on what to do and when to do it so that he can escape. It wasn't
really his parents, but it wasn't really a "shadow" either -- I think we'll learn more about that veil in books 6 and 7.