Harry, Luna and the trip behind the veil

[spang_b]

No: HPFGUIDX 88805

hi,
  Dedalus Diggle got me started and I found an interesting 
connection about Sirius's death.
   Dedalus and Icarus both fly off from prison. Icarus gets his 
wings burned but Dedalus flies off and lands on a place called 
Cumae. Don't know what he did there after that but Cumae is an 
interesting place because a sibyl lives there. Her name is Deiphobe. 
This is the character which leads Aeneas into underworld to meet his 
father through an opening on the island called Avernus. Before going 
however, according to her instructions, Aeneas has to pluck a golden 
bough from a tree, a tree favored by Proserpine/Persephone. That 
bough will help him cross Styx, which no ordinary living being is 
supposed to manage otherwise. 
 Now according to Frazer, that golden bough which Virgil mentions in 
Aeneid is nothing but mistletoe. Connections ringing?
 I first thought that sybil was our good old Prof.Trelawney but 
well, I then thought of Luna. The name Deiphobe seems to suggest 
moon and Luna  also means moon. Twice in OOTP she makes statements 
which recall this Aeneas business. First in  Harry's DADA class she 
mentions something about mistletoe having nargles. And latter 
ofcourse, after Sirius falls behind the veil, she says something 
about meeting her mother because dead people are present behind that 
veil.
  So will she take Harry behind that veil to meet Sirius, with 
mistletoe as some kind of charm to get back? Because Harry Potter 
series seems to be heavily influenced by Roman mythology and most of 
contemporary fantasy seems to include this one trip to underworld( 
for example, Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy), I think 
we will see something like this happen in  the next book.

spangb