OOP: The Black Veil

[ravenclaws_luna_lovegood]

No: HPFGUIDX 63870

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "innovan" <innovan at y...> wrote:
> OotP spoiler
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> Dumbledore called the room with the veil the "Death Chamber" on p 
817.
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> It is described p773-775 as a stone amphitheater lined with 
benches, 
> resembling the courtrooms we've seen. Instead of the chair with 
chains 
> at the center, there is a raised stone dais with a crumbling, 
> unsupported by any wall archway with tattered black veil on it.
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> Sirius, hit in the chest by a red stunning spell (Avada is purple), 
> then gracefully archs through the veil. His face looks wasted, once 
> handsome. The veil gusts especially hard for a moment after Sirius 
> passes through it, then settles again.
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That was the american version, the people reading the British version 
read something different. Although I hate it, I memorized the part 
where Sirius died, I was so in denial, i read it over and over again 
to make sure it really happened: P 710-711

The second jet of light hit Sirius squarely in the chest.
The laughter had not quite died from his face, but his eyes were 
widened in shock.
Harry realeased Neville, though he was unaware of doing so. He was 
jumping down the steps again, pulling out his wand, as Dumbledore, 
too, turned towards the dais.
It seemed to take Sirius an age to fall. His body curved in a 
graceful arc as he sank backwars through the ragged veil hanging from 
the arch. Harry saw the look of mingled fear and surprise on his 
godfather's wasted-once handsome face as he fell through the ancient 
doorway and disappeared behind the veil, which fluttered for a 
moment, as though in a high wind, then fell back into place.

So that may explain why some of us are confused, and the AK curse is 
green, not purple.