[HPforGrownups] Other Implications of the Veil

[Richelle Votaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 74731

Poet 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

Well I'm not about to yell at you. :)  I have a whole journal I'm keeping
notes on of Biblical implications and Christian symbolisms in HP.  Go
figure.

> 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

This is very interesting.  I think we're pretty clear on the fact that the
veil was in the Death Chamber (as called by Dumbledore), referring to the
"beyond the veil" expression used by many to refer to death.  Now, where did
that expression come from?  Somebody had to first refer to death as a veil,
right?  And the only veil in history I can think of is the veil in the
tabernacle of the Old Testament referred to above.  Sure, there may have
been others, but that doesn't mean *I* can think of them. :)  That's your
job.  Does anyone know where the "veil" analogy for death came from to begin
with?

Richelle