OOP: What killed Character X and death

[Rob]

No: HPFGUIDX 62319

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Hollydaze" <hollydaze at b...> wrote:
> Spoiler space just in case.
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> "Harry saw the look of mingled fear and surprise on his godfather's
> once-handsome face as he fell through the ancient doorway and
> disappeared behind the veil". Both of these descriptions together fit
> with the looks on Cedric and the Riddles faces, fear/terror from the
> Riddles and surprise from Cedric so it seems that it might have been
> AK after all. 
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> I really think there is more to that veil though. I am especially
> interested in the way the veil seemed to hypnotise certain people,
> Luna, Harry, Neville and Ginny but not Ron and Hermione. 

Don't know if this has been mentioned before... I think the veil was
supposed to be the metaphorical "thin veil between life and death",
that the Department of Mysteries has either found or created to be
not-so-metaphorical.

So what hit Sirius could have been any spell that throws people
around, such as Impedimenta. It could have been the same spell that
hit McGonagall about 80 pages earlier when she was trying to save
Hagrid, since those produced red bolts, as did Bellatrix's spell.

As far as I can tell, there weren't many AK's flying around during the
final battle, just a lot of Stupefies, Expelliarmi, and Impedimentas.

--Rob