Faking Sirius' Death?

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 91678


> Cindy wrote:
> <snip> 
> I know there's no canon to support this, but the veil seems like a
> method of execution, or maybe even euthanasia.
<snip>
> 
> Carol:

> But my reading is a bit different. We haven't seen
> anything like the death penalty in the Potter books.
<snip>
> I think that the veiled archway somehow allows the Unspeakables to
> study death--not as a coroner does, to discover the cause of a
> particular death, but to study death itself as one of the great
> Mysteries (the others being life, time, the mind, and probably love)
> that have intrigued philosophers since the time of the Greeks.
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Annemehr:
I just figured the WW was a lot like RL Britain in this regard:  they
had the death penalty in the not-so-distant past but they don't
anymore. Maybe the Unspeakables don't even use the veil to study death
anymore for that reason, though anyway it's hard to imagine how they'd
do that.  I wonder what happens if you stick your hand in and then
pull it out?

Annemehr
who'd rather be executed than dementor-kissed any day