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JK said prior to book 5's release that she cried when writing Sirius's death, so obviously he did mean a lot to her (but then why did she have to kill him in the first place?)
JK ROWLING: Yeah. I went into the kitchen having done it....
JEREMY PAXMAN: What, killed this person?
JK ROWLING: Yeah. Well I had re-written the death, re-written it and that was it. It was definitive. And the person was definitely dead. And I walked into the kitchen crying and Neil said to me, "What on earth is wrong?" and I said, "Well, I've just killed the person". Neil doesn't know who the person is. But I said, "I've just killed the person". And he said, "Well, don't do it then." I thought, a doctor you know.... and I said "Well it just doesn't work like that. You are writing children's books, you need to be a ruthless killer".
JEREMY PAXMAN: Is it going to upset people?
JK ROWLING: Yes. It upset me. I always knew it was coming, but I managed to live in denial, and carry on with the character and not think about it.
She also explained a bit about his death in a post-book 5 interview at the Royal Albert Hall in London in front of thousands of fans. She didn't actually mention Sirius because she said she was worried some people hadn't finished the book yet (so she couldn't elaborate on him as a person or on how he actually died), but she did say this:
"I think what I was trying to do with the death in this book was show how very arbitrary and sudden death is. This is a death where you didn't have a big death bed scene. It happened almost accidentally and that is one of the very cruel things about death and they're now in a war situation where that really does happen, where one minute you're talking to your friend and the next minute he's gone. It's so shocking and so inexplicable... "Where did they go?" I found it upsetting to write, because I knew what it would mean to Harry."
(and did she consider what it would mean to us?!)
