The Death Chamber

[Arya]

No: HPFGUIDX 81611

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sibel_saya" <sibel_saya at h...>
wrote: Am I the only one who has wondered what the Death Chamber 
really is?  And this mysterious Black Veil that Sirius fell through? 
Is this some kind of execution chamber for criminals so bad even the 
Dementors and Azkaban are too good for them? Or something a little 
less obvious? 
SNIP

THEN ENTROPY WROTE:
Well, when Harry had his discussion with Nearly Headless Nick about
death, Nick told Harry that he knows "nothing of the secrets of
death", but then goes on to say "I believe learned wizards study the
matter in the Department of Mysteries--".  
This is probably what Nick is talking about; a place which has been
devised to study death. Perhaps even speak to the dead. Because of the
amphitheater-like setup of the room, it may be some sort of study hall
or, perhaps, an observation room like those you might see in a
teaching hospital.  
Just my thoughts!
:: Entropy ::

ME:
I would say that the Death Chamber Room was indeed some place for 
capital punishment.  I might assume that the Dementors were only 
placed at Azkaban as prison guards after the first fall of Voldemort--
Dumbledore cites their removal as one of--if not the--first things to 
do after Voldemort was reborn.  I hardly think this would be such an 
issue if the dementors had been at Azkaban before and never left 
Ministry control nor do I think that if there had been hard evidence 
that the Dementors had been linked to Voldemort before, that they 
would be trusted to guard prisoners and then not sen as a risk to 
remain at Azkaban even with rumors of Volde's return.  I think the 
Dementors at Azkaban, therefore to be development only within the 
last 15 years or so--of course not any longer as they all left at the 
end of OotP.  

Therefore, I would say that other means of metting out justice must 
have been used prior to incarceration with Dementors--I think it 
quite likely that the worst convicted criminals might have been made 
into Death studies and sent to walk beyond the veil.  
In fact, as I think about this, perhaps if this were true, then 
Sirius--being apprehended a day or so after the Fall, might have been 
one of the first to have been shunted away from not having to go 
beyond the veil and rather to live in the Dementors' prison.  I think 
it would be ironic, given that Sirius did indeed, end up having to go 
beyond the veil.  Hmmm.

Arya