OOP: Startling discovery about the veil

[Kelly L.]

No: HPFGUIDX 63733

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Mindy wrote:

Conclusion: The spell most certainly did NOT kill him. He was still
> conscious. He looked surprised but also scared, knowing he was going to
> fall into the veil and no one could save him.
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> We don't know what goes on behind the veil. No one explains it in the
> book -- and I think that JKR keeps that knowledge away from us for good
> reason. We can safely assume it will play a signifcant role in book 6.

I agree.  My significant other finished the book last night, and the first thing he 
said was, "Sirius ain't dead."  We talked it over--we decided that Bellatrix had *
stunned* Sirius, rather than hitting him with a more lethal spell.  JKR made 
sure we knew Sirius had been hit with a RED spell.  Avada Kedavra is 
GREEN.  Then Sirius fell ALIVE through the veil.

What happens to him on the other side, I don't know, but if I recall my 
mythology, when living people go to the land of the dead, they just have to be 
careful not to eat the food...

If JKR wanted us to be 100 percent positive Sirius was dead, she would have 
had Bellatrix AK him.  There is still something that will happen, I think.  What, I 
don't know.

Kelly L.