OoP: Percy Weasley/ Veil / Mirror

[fordy_the_hobbit]

No: HPFGUIDX 63203

<ace_of_spades_99 at y...> wrote:
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> What the heck is going on with that veil and why didn't Harry have 
> the common sense to ask Luna more about it! Is it some kind of 
> gateway between the living and the dead? Does it kill those who 
come 
> into contact with it? I have not totally come to terms with it yet, 
I 
> hope others have different ideas about it.
.....
> 
> I wonder how it is that the prophecy simply says that basically one 
> of them (either Harry or Voldemort) has to die, when at the current 
> moment the are both currently alive and well. The problem is it 
> doesn't give  a time frame for it to happen. How long can both 
live. 
> And if they were to completely stay away from each other would it 
> change anything? I mean what seperates us is the choices we make so 
> if a conscience choice to avoid each other was made would one still 
> die by the others hand? I was lost on this because this means Harry 
> would have to make the choice to kill Voldemort.
> 
> 
> 
> "ace_of_spades_99"

I don't have answers to a lot of your questions/ thoughts (I'm as 
confused about the veil as you; is Sirius dead or not, and if also is 
he rescuable by the wizards studying death?) but the way I read the 
prophecy was to take "live" in a less literal sense. The way I read 
it one of them must die for the other to live a proper, individual 
life. Even in earlier books Harry cannot be said to have lived a 
normal life, even for a wizard, and in OOP he becomes extremely 
psychologically traumatized and disturbed. Also, with HP and V's 
link, they are almost living as one (or 1.5?) entity. I therefore 
took the prophecy to mean that only when one of them is destroyed, 
can the other live a full life. Perhaps this half-life is 
demonstrated in Harry's inability to create a relationship with Cho 
when both are attracted to each other, and his tendency (also in 
earlier books) to go mad at his best friends, even to the stage of 
completely estranging Ron in.. (which one was it). Maybe its just 
because hes a teenager, but I can't help feeling it's extended by 
Harry's part-life. 

Another explanation/theory/random thought is that when Voldemort 
cursed Harry and the curse rebounded, "life force" was taken from 
him, but because they are now linked both are sharing Harry's; only 
when one dies can the other live as a complete person.

Peter the Hobbit