Trip Beyond the Veil, a la Aeneas

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 72591

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Michelle" <mrg18 at c...> wrote:
> I suspect that in the future books Harry will have to make some 
kind 
> of journey beoynd the veil (to the underworld) in order to 
understand 
> or have some kind of reconciliation with the idea of death, a la 
> Aeneas in the Aeneid or Lyra Belacqua in the Golden Compass 
series.  
> It would be his embrace of death (as opposed to Voldy's fleeing 
from 
> it) that would make him able to defeat Voldy (aside from all the 
> other characteristics that will enable HP to defeat him). 
> 

Well couldn't the graveyard scene in GoF be considered his Nekuia? 
Even though he doesn't journey to the underworld to see his dead 
parents, their shades and spirits instead come to him through 
Voldemort's wand like in the Nekuia by that roman fellow(Lucan I 
think) where the underworld is brought into the upper world.