Kissing gate

[Goddlefrood]

> Elisabet:
> But the real thing is much more interesting - JKR put it at the
> entrance to the Graveyard. IMO it forshadows the King's Cross 
> chapter, where Harry is in a transition point *between* life and 
> death (my own reading, and as JKR interpreted it in the post DH 
> interview or webchat).
> 
> Take a look at the picture in the link above; as a person passes
> through the gate they find themselves in a sort of enclosure that 
> is neither on one side nor the other (especially when the gate is 
> in mid-swing).

Goddlefrood:

Bear in mind that kissing gates were, and in some places still 
are, a common feature of an entrance into a graveyard. In my 
grandparents 'village there was one, as indeed there were and 
are several around the west country of England where both Godric's 
Hollow and the Forest of Dean are located.

I'm all for reading more into the Potter books than is there but 
in this instance I think it's just a common graveyard accoutrement.

For anyone who has not seen the picturtes supplied in this thread, 
or might be unable to see them, a kissing gate is typically a 
wooden structure with two upright structures meeting in a v shape. 
>From the middle of the v shape there is then a further upright 
structure with a gate affixed to it on hinges. To enter one pushes 
the gate away, steps into the gap, and then swings the gate so that 
one can exit from the other side. At no time have any such kissing 
gates felt to me like I was in any kind of enclosure, but then that 
may just be me.

Hopefully this description might help, I do recognise it could not.

Goddlefrood