Other Implications of the Veil

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No: HPFGUIDX 74634

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "poet1908" <kgriffin1908 at y...> 
wrote:
> I hope I don't get yelled at but the veil also has some Biblical 
>  implications(maybe not for JKR).  It just what I thought of when I 
> read it.  The veil in the Old Testament seperated the holy of holy 
> places for the rest of worshipers.  Only the priest could go in. If 
> a non-priest went in, they tied a rope to him/her so they could 
pull 
> them out when they died.  The death was associated with the thought 
> that it was too much to handle to go "beyond the veil."  In the NT  
> the veil was lifted because of Jesus Christ.  I am sure that the 
> people who write the good stuff about HP and Christianity have 
> already thought of this.  
> Poet


My take on the veil is that it is a way to lure unsuspecting people 
to thier death, and there is no way out. Remember how Hermione had ot 
pull Harry and Ginny ( I believe) away from the veil when the group 
first encountered it. It just seemed sinister to me.
Fran