HPforgrownups Re: Veil Question

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No: HPFGUIDX 72315

>   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

  Concerning the veil; I read it to be a place were wizrds were once 
put to death by the wizengamot, perhaps before Azkaban was created.  
It was described as a room similar to the court room. 

-Ben