The Veil

[doddiemoemoe]

No: HPFGUIDX 110980

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "spacedoutspacecadet" 
<spaced_out_space_cadet at h...> wrote:

> I'm sure that this has been covered before but I, like many others 
> was horrified by the death of Sirius Black, a character that 
quickly 
> became a favorite of mine.
> 
> This is to do with the Veil (again I'm sure someone has pointed 
this 
> out before, but I'm new so bear with me!) Has anyone considered 
the 
> fact that both Dumbledore and Percy Weasley have the name 
Percival, 
> which comes with the meaning to 'peirce the veil', can this mean 
> that they may possibly be able to bring someone back from beyond 
the 
> veil?


Just to let you know that the "veil" is alluded to in many masonic 
beliefs/rituals...originally the "veil" is strung across two "stone" 
wands(the arch) and is symbolic on passing on to the next "step"...
(some masonics say the "step" is death...others say, "traveling on 
to a higher spiritual plane"..most, if not all masonic temples 
believe traveling through the veil under an arch represents 
traveling from one sort of being into another).  Perhaps it's an 
existential thing--being of itself/being in itself sort of thing.

Some things we may hope Harry and ALL learn from  Sirius' 
death...Harry will no longer stay locked up to the point that he can 
only make rash decisions--hence OOP members showing up at Kings 
Cross at the end of OOP...(DD kept Harry "locked up away from 
Hogwarts...and Umbridge kept him locked IN Hogwarts---neither proved 
a success...)

I hate to say this but one thing Harry learned was that some things 
are worth dying for.(Harry may blame himself for Sirius' death, but 
neither he nor DD says it was a death in vain.) We, as readers will 
probably garner more in this theory based mainly on Neville, but 
also upon the others who have had losses due to Voldemort and his 
followers.

And the certain thing we can all be sure off...if anything is 
written in a book about the "veil"...if Hermione ever overcomes her 
fear of it...we'll be hearing about what she has read about it...AND 
if we cannot count on Hermione...then we'll have to settle for 
Luna's information on "the veil" and take it with a grain of salt...

Doddie