Ron's Dead Brother in Casablanca

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 85724

Phil(istine) wrote:
> I started the thread "Ron's Dead Brother" 
> ( post #85269, reproduced below)
> hoping for comments on whether members' theories agreed that Harry
> thinking Ron was beyond 'The VEIL' is significant. So far, 
> most responses have discussed the 'missing Weasley' part only,
> yet I thought this an already well established theory, though not 
> fact.
> I apologise for not being able to give credit to who first mentioned
> the 'missing Weasley'.
> 
> Harry calling out "Is that you, Ron?" at the veil suggests
> 3 possibilities to me:-
> 
> 1. A living person beyond the veil sounds like Ron.
> 2. A dead person beyond the veil sounds like Ron.
> 3. JKR is foreshadowing Ron's death :-(
> 
<snip>

> I am not as well read as many of you theorists on this excellent site,
> and my simple reading of 'the veil' does not come over as 'boundary
> with the dead', but I seem to be a minority of one, lol. If the
> voices are from the dead, could the 'missing Weasley' be there?
> Would the dead brother have been about Ron's age, to sound like him?
<snip>

Forgive me for sounding like Hermione, but the parts of your post that
I snipped are way too esoteric for me. I don't think there's any need
to connect the veil with Ron. The voices he and Luna hear (which I do
think are the voices of the dead, just as only they and our "stringy"
Slytherin boy [Theodore Nott?] can hear) are *whispers.* They don't
resemble Ron's voice or anyone's. You can't tell a man's whisper from
a little girl's. All whispers sound the same, with the distinctive
intonations of the individual voice. He simply asks, "Is that you,
Ron?" because Ron, his best friend, is the first person he thinks of
and he can't see him at the moment. (Ron is behind the archway.)

I do think the arch is important, in part because it makes Sirius's
death so mysterious and there's no body and no funeral to help Harry
accept the death as real (or "provide closure," as the sociologists
say). I'm sure that it's a portal to the world of the dead (which
explains why it's in the department of mysteries along with life,
time, the future and (probably) love (behind the locked door) and that
it will play an important part in Book 7, but I don't think it has
anything to do with Ron. I firmly predict that Ron will survive the
series and follow in the family tradition of having lots of red-headed
children.

I was going to say that if he doesn't, I'll personally *walk* to
England from Tucson (try that, anybody!) and marry ESE!Bill Weasley,
but then people wouldn't take my previous post seriously. So I didn't
say that. I really do think Ron will survive, though, and that the
whispered voices didn't resemble his or anyone else's.

Carol