OoP: What was the Point of this Death? And Phineas ??s

[Tim]

No: HPFGUIDX 62990

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> And the death itself leaves me with questions.
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> What curse killed Sirius?
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> Was he dead before he fell behind the veil?
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> Is there significance to the veil being in the Dept of Mysteries?
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> Who do we hear whispering behind it?
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> Marianne

I thought that the black veil was death itself.  Even if the curse 
that hit Sirius didn't kill him, the fact that he fell through the 
veil did.  Notice how Lupin kept Harry away from the veil after 
that.  The voices?  Death calling you toward it.  Death, after all, 
is never satisfied.

That being said, I don't think we've necessarily seen the last of 
Sirius.  He could come back as a ghost.

Tim