OotP Spoiler! Awful Boy! A certain death, etc.

[Christi]

No: HPFGUIDX 62052

Spoiler
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Hums 
Along
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Why
Don't
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Go
Finish
Reading 
The
Book
Now?





In chapter two, just after defining dementors for Vernon, Petunia says
"I heard-that awful boy- telling her about them-years ago". Harry 
assumes that she is talking about his father and mother, but is this 
really so? Obviously Lily was not friends with James until later than 
the end of his 5th year, so it could easily have been some other boy. 
My first thought had been Severus (LOLLIPOPS, anyone), but really it 
could have been someone completely different. Petunia put an emphasis 
on 'her' which strongly suggested Lily, but could have possibly 
referred to some other female. Of course she could well have meant 
James and Lily, but for some reason the line jumped out at me and 
struck me as the kind of vague clue that JKR uses so often.



I also have to throw in my two knuts and say that IMHO Sirius is well 
and truley dead. As much as I would love to climb aboard the good 
ship SIND/SAD DENIAL, I cannot believe he will be back. As much as I 
am intrigued by the 'Harry journeys beyond the viel and lives!' 
theories, and they are compelling, I think that suspecting that we 
won't see that either. In my mind the thought that Mum, Dad, Cedric 
and Sirius are just a curtain away is there to provide temptation 
and/or comfort. I could easily imagine Harry sitting in front of the 
veil listening the voices much like he sat in front of the Mirror of 
Erised, only this time he has the option of walking through to the 
other side. At that point more of the people he loves could also be 
gone. The only thing holding him back would be would be his 
obligation to free the world of Voldemort. And speaking of Voldemort, 
what does old Flight from Death/Stealing Death have to do with the 
veil? I will be very surprised if the veil does not figure heavily 
into one or both of the remaining books. 

The realm behind the veil would also make Harry's eventual death 
possible to swallow, as in the end of 'The Final Battle'.



Christi T.