Trip Beyond the Veil, a la Aeneas

[mhershey2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 72592

michelle 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). 
> 
> Any thoughts?

I don't know that Harry will actually travel behind the veil - 
everyone seems to agree that once you do that, you are dead, but we 
have seen him "commune" with the dead in past books, most notably 
during the graveyard scene in GoF.  DD tells Harry (or LV, can't 
remember at the moment) that LV's failure to understand that there 
are things worse than death are one of LV's greatest weaknesses.  So 
I think there is something for Harry to learn about death to help him 
defeat LV.  

Mhershey