HPforgrownups Re: Veil Question

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No: HPFGUIDX 72298

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Buttercup <cathio2002 at y...> 
wrote:
> I'm not sure I totally understand this veil that
> Sirius went through. Would Sirius still have died if
> he hadn't been standing in front of it? I mean did he
> only die because he was in the wrong place. Or would
> he have died no matter where was standing because of
> Bellatrix's spell? She didn't say Avada Kedavara (not
> sure of spelling. And do all dead wizards/witches end
> up behind this veil no matter where you die?

  I understood the spell Bellatrix shot at Sirius as being a 
stunner.  As Professor McGonnagal (much older than Sirius) took a few 
of these and survived, I bet Sirius would have been fine if he had 
not gone through the veil. 
  I think the veil is a sort of doorway between the living and the 
dead that the unspeakables created while studying death.  Since it is 
a doorway to 'the land of the dead' then, yes, all of the dead 
wizards would be in the realm accessed by this world through the 
veil.  All speculation of course, but that was my initial thought 
about the veil. 
                                  -Elizabeth