Ginny and the entrancing Veil

[Thorsten Scheffler]

No: HPFGUIDX 107607

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "rowansjet" <rowansjet at y...> 
wrote:
> In the scene where we are introduced to the Veil in the Department 
> of Mysteries (pg. 682, OotP UK edition), there are several points 
> where the author notes that some people are 'mesmerised' by the 
> veil, and can hear whispering voices. Hermione and Ron are 
> unaffected and seem particularly worried about it, while Harry and 
> Luna can both hear voices and are atracted too it.


It is interesting to notice, that the four persons who seemed to hear 
voices from the veil where those who sat together on their journey to 
Hogwarts (Harry, Neville, Luna and Ginny). And all of them came in 
contact with the stinksap of the Mimbulus mimbletonia. I always found 
it interesting, that it were Neville, Ginny and Luna who came with 
the trio to the MoM, all three of them more or less drenched in 
stinksap at the above mentioned occasion. I thought there must be a 
connection between those two events, but I never noticed before, that 
they were all affected by the veil, while Ron and Hermione, who  
didn't come in contact with the stinksap weren't. Does that mean 
stinksap enables you to hear the dead? 

Thorsten (another first-time poster)