HPforgrownups Re: Veil Question

[sofdog_2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 72332

The veil, or the phrase "beyond the veil" is a religious reference to 
the barrier between the living and the dead. More detail is taken 
with each interpretation respective to individual creeds and 
mythologies. In Christianity the veil was placed in a temple and 
separated the seat of God from Man. Someone made an interesting 
comment on another board that the whispering voices were like 
the "susperia" (many voices) in Dante's Inferno. Wasn't there also a 
similar scene in one of the Narnia books? The kids went through a 
veil and instead of coming out the other side, they found they had 
passed into a realm of death?

Luna's last comment was a bit vague, but I think she meant that the 
dead are beyond the veil which means that they still exist. The 
opportunity exists to meet them again eventually. I guess the key 
point with Sirius was that once he'd crossed that threshold, there 
was no coming back. 

- Sof

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "esilvae" <esilvae at y...> wrote:
> --- 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