OOP: What killed Character X and death

[underwater7001]

No: HPFGUIDX 62281

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "athenal15" <tonks101 at h...> 
wrote:
> Holydaze wrote:
>  almost as though she's cheating in some way. Does that make any 
> sense? Like she's deliberately hiding something form us and it's 
not 
> allowing Sirius's death to fully sink in yet which I don't like, 
it's 
> like I'm not being allowed to grieve properly.
> 
> Me:
> I absolutely agree about not neing able to grieve properly. I 
don't 
> think it was AK. I think the reason Sirius is dead is because he 
fell 
> through the doorway. The veil seems to me to be a point of access 
> into the worl of the dead. Meybe if you go through it you 
> automatically die and can't come come back into the living world?
> 
> Hollydaze wrote:
> the way the veil seemed to hypnotise certain people, Luna, Harry, 
> Neville and Ginny but not Ron and Hermione
> 
> Me:
> again, I agree. Although Ginny has not witnessed someone dying, 
she 
> has been to the very brink of death. Why does the veil affect them 
in 
> this way though? Is it maybe trying to claim people who got away 
from 
> death before (harry and Ginny)? But then Neville and Luna would 
also 
> have had to have a close brush with death too.
> 
> just my thoughts
> Tonks101

I also think this may have something to do with Ron and Hermoine 
never having been close to someone who has died, as well as never 
having been in mortal danger (even Hermoine's petrifying look at the 
Basilisk).  For Harry and Ginny, they have both been so close to 
death, that they are more sensative to the pull of the veil than Ron 
and Hermoine.