What's Sirius There For?/ Mr Potter, he dead.

[Kirstini]

No: HPFGUIDX 83914

 Entropy wrote:
>>What I find suspicious is that Lupin is the one who holds Harry back
after Sirius falls through the veil, and tells Harry with certainty
that Sirius is dead.  How does he know this? How could someone who is
not employed by the Dept. of Mysteries, let alone not in the Ministry 
at all, know what that veil is and what it means? It seems unlikely
that he would know unless, perhaps, he was told what his reaction
should be beforehand.>> 

Unless Remus, being a clever, bookish sort of chap, already knows 
that to go through the archway means death. The room *is* called the 
Death Chamber, and it's been speculated on this board that the 
amphitheatre-like layout of the stone steps indicates that it was 
previously used for public executions.
Incidentally, on the archway, I found this nifty little quote that 
must have slipped my eyes on first to third OoP readings:
"...Harry thought the archway had a kind of beauty about it, old 
though it was. The gently rippling veil intriguied him; he felt a 
very strong inclination to climb up on the dais and walk through it."
OoP (Bloomsbury), p682.
Who's "half in love with easeful death" now? I think that's 
foregrounding. In fact, I will stick my beloved shoe collection out 
on the line and say, with Dolores, "Potter will never be an Auror".
I may have an idea for a longer post about death a-coming. Happy 
camper, aren't I?

Kirstini, Apologising for Remus since message 82814. Killing off 
Harry at the end of the series forever.