Dept of Mysteries Veil Room

[mhbobbin]

No: HPFGUIDX 114196

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Troels Forchhammer 
<t.forch at e...> wrote:
> At 11:09 29-09-04 -0700, sp. sot. wrote:
> 
> 
> > JKR: Well, it would be nice, but - I'll tell you something - you
>       - you've raised a really interesting point there, Peter,
>       because when I started writing the books, the first thing I
>       had to decide was not what magic /can/ do, but what it
>       /can't/ do.
>       I had to set limits on it - immediately, and decide what the
>       parameters are ... and one of the most important things I -
>       I decided was that _magic__cannot__bring__dead__people__back
>       to life; that' - that's one of the most profound things, the
>       - the natural law of - of - of death applies to wizards as
>       it applies to Muggles and there is no returning once you're
>       properly dead, you know, they might be able to save very
>       close-to-death people better than we can, by magic - that
>       they - that they have certain knowledge we don't, but once
>       you're dead, you're dead.
> 
>  From the Boston radio show "The Connection", 1999-10-12
> 

mhbobbin:

You have stopped the Quote from The Connection before the most 
interesting and controversial part:

JKR: "I had to set limits on it immediately and decide what the 
perimeters are. One of the most important things I decided was that 
magic cannot bring dead people back to life. That's one of the most 
profound things. The natural laws of death applies to wizards as it 
applies to Muggles and there is no returning once you're 
***properly*** dead. You know, they might be able to save very close 
to death people better than we can, by magic. They have certain 
knowledge we don't, but once you're dead, you're dead. So, yeah, I'm 
afraid there will be no coming back for Harry's parents." (Emphasis 
was mine.)

mhbobbin again: the key in this paragraph are the words PROPERLY 
DEAD. Controversial but she said it and posters are still debating 
it. What does it mean?
The controversy won't be settled till Harry goes through the Veil 
like Orpheus or the last page is written without it.
Like it or not, she has written a story with a Giant Three Headed 
Dog with apparent Greek origins, A pomegranate, and an entrance to 
death.  Harry also has knowledge of how to pass the Three Headed 
Dog. 

I should mention for those who hope to see Sirius again, that 
negotiations for the Dead to come back to living rarely went well in 
Classical mythology. 

mhbobbin