OOP: Startling discovery about the veil

[Brooke]

No: HPFGUIDX 63770

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kelly L." <kethlenda at y...> 
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> Mindy wrote:
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> 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 
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> > 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.
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> 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.
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> 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...
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> 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.
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> Kelly L.


In still thinking along those lines (as mentioned above).  If Sirius 
is indeed not dead, what would he be now.  Ghosts are dead, so he 
could not return as a ghost.  Is there another type of magical being 
or spirit that we may or may not have been told about that could be 
somewhat alive/dead?  I guess it sounds silly, but Peeves and Moaning 
Myrtle seem to have abilities that other ghosts do not.  Then again, 
why did Lupin restrain Harry and say "there's nothing you can do."  
At that point, Lupin behaved as if Sirius was indeed gone.  But 
Lupin's behavior at the end of the book (at King's Cross) was very 
sketchy to me... why was he not more empathetic with Harry in regard 
to the very recent loss of someone who had been important to both of 
them?  YOu would think Lupin would have wanted a word with Harry 
about it, right?  Maybe Lupin knows something about that veil that we 
don't??  

Brooke