What's behind the veil ? Another chance for Sirius ?

[a_reader2003]

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I really enjoyed JKR slipping in that question from Harry to Nearly 
Headless Nick: 'what happens when you are dead, anyway ?' An annoyed 
teenager demanding an answer to that teensy weensy million dollar 
question that's been bugging a few people since the year dot ! Loved 
it - I think she might have been getting her own back at some of 
those fundamentalists !

However, was I alone in thinking that the arch and the veil concepts 
had parallels with Lord of the Rings ? Remember Aragorn, using his 
rights as the future king, riding through a scary archway into the 
Halls of the Dead, and asking the dead to fulfil their promise, and 
come and help save the day at the battle for Minas Tirith ? I wonder 
if a host of the 'dead' (or however you want to describe the state of 
those beyond the veil), will be asked to play a role in the final 
defeat of Voldemort, a bit like the prior incantem forms coming out 
the wands and helping Harry in GoF ? And Sirius might lead the 
charge, as it were.

It would be a way of bringing closure to the pain of Sirius's death - 
they get to 'see' each other one more time, in the heat of a final 
battle. Who knows, perhaps Harry even goes to join Sirius, having 
defeated Voldemort ? I find it very difficult to imagine Harry going 
on to live any kind of ordinary life after Book 7, to me he is 
written very much as a brave young prince, flawed but doomed, 
destined to live on only in people's hearts and minds, having saved 
them all.

CW