Connection between books 2 and 5 - veil?

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 98123

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "rsteph1981" <rsteph1981 at y...>
wrote:
> Did we ever come to a consensus on what the important bit from book 
> 2 was?
> 
> Because I just read this essay (someone at fictionalley posted the 
> link) and it's interesting.  
> 
> If it's already been brought up, I apologize.  I did seach the 
> archive, but I just searched the word "nick".
> 
> Anyway, this essay speculates that the black curtain in the death 
> day party is the same as the veil in OOTP.
> 
> Here's a link:  http://harmony.portkey.org/theories/veilmystery.php
> 
> 
> 
> Rebecca


bboy_mn:

Just my opinion.

True, the Black Velvet Curtain at the entry way to Nick's death day
party is SYMBOLICALLY the same as the Veiled Archway in the Death
Chamber. 

But are they literally one and the same? I seriously doubt it. I think
that breaches in the barrier between this world and the next are
extremely few and far between, and I really don't think they are all
that portable.

I just don't see Sir Nick going into the ghost's party shop and
ordering two dozen black candles, one table of rancid rotten food, one
veiled gateway to the afterlife, plus a couple dozen party hats just
for good measure.  

Black, as well as curtains and veils, are somewhat universally
symbolic of and associated with death. But, beyond that common
symbolism, I don't see any connection between the Death Day Party, and
the Veiled Archway in the Chamber of Death.

Just one man's opinion.

bboy_mn