The Veil - Who in WW knows what? (was Re: Lupin's touch/Veil/summer in book6)

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--- In Message 112336 HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "finwitch" 
<finwitch at y...> wrote:

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> Alla:
>  
> > NO, I don't find strange that Remus wants to save Harry from 
falling 
> > too. What I do find strange is how did he know that Veil is 
deadly 
> > that FAST?
> 
> Finwitch:
> 
> Well, I have a theory about the Veil - it's NOT, in itself, lethal.
> What's behind it, is not where the dead go - it's a werewolf-
place! So
> just about everyone who enters, will die or at least be bitten, 
thus
> becoming a werewolf, given a new, wolf-related name etc. 

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Clearly Lupin knows something about the veil, but so to do the DE's 
if you read the chapter (they are highly surprised to see Harry step 
onto the dais). None of the youngsters, very bright Hermione 
included, seem to know what it is although it's for her the most 
alarming place of all the weird places they get to on the way into 
the department of Mysteries and each of the heroic six (HP,RW,HG, 
GW, NL and LL) has a strong response of either revulsion/fear or 
(fatal?) attraction - almost along the same lines as which of them 
are most dementor-prone and can also see thestrals. Perhaps only 
DE's 'know' - which would suggest DE!Lupin or ESE!Lupin - theories I 
just can't hold with - but perhaps most WW adults know (for 
unrevealed reasons, just as JKR says she imagines most adults would 
be able to see thestrals. It isn't clear why (if this were so) 
Sirius would be so blase in its presence - that is, he doesn't take 
special measures to go nowhere near it as Lupin does.

The veil is really odd. Not only does it take our beloved Sirius to 
seeming nothingness but it is described as ancient and crumbling 
(and not a little sinister) in the middle of a bright and sterile 
chamber that sounds almost like an execution room akin to a 
dementor's kiss excepting that instead of sucking away the soul it 
takes body too. It perhaps is not insignificant that the courtrooms 
used for 'serious trials' are not far away.

These are my impressions. Feedback and discussion welcomed.