Faking Sirius' Death?

[mad_maxime]

No: HPFGUIDX 91747

Carol wrote:
> <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. How
> they could do it, I don't know, but maybe they have ways of
> communicating with the spirit voices that Harry and Luna hear behind
> the veil. But the archway is described as ancient and it's placed, 
> as you say, in an amphitheater, so maybe it was used as a place of
> execution in Roman times and the Department of Mysteries was built 
> on that spot specifically to study death and only later expanded to
> include other Mysteries--followed in modern times by an entire
> building dedicated to bureaucracy.
> <snip>

Max:

I like Carol's speculation that the veil was formerly used as a method
of execution, but is now being used as a way to study death.  

The physical veil itself, and the fact that one can hear voices coming
from behind is very intriguing.  Is the veil just a one way ticket? 
Or might someone from the 'land of the dead' be able to move back out
through the veil, if only to communicate with the 'land of the living'?

I like this idea because it might allow Harry to communicate with his
parents and/or Sirius once again.

Max