An Odd Ghostly Question.

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No: HPFGUIDX 124799


Carol responds:
>As I understand it, it isn't the veil itself but the archway it 
covers
>that leads to the "beyond." The archway is ancient and built on a 
dais
>with an amphitheater around it. It's clearly a portal to the
>Underworld or Otherworld, the world of the dead, and I very much 
doubt
>that it can be moved. I've suggested in other posts that the
>amphitheater was constructed for public executions or ritual
>sacrifices in ancient times, perhaps by the Druids. (I don't think 
the
>portal was built by the earlier Neolithic people who built 
Stonehenge,
>as someone else suggested, because the arch was not invented, at 
least
>by Muggles, until Roman times.)

I was very curious about not only the veil, but the whole room.  They 
refer to it in OoP as the "Death Chamber" and it made me think of 
executions.  Is this what the WW used in ancient times for capital 
punishment?  With the rows of seats, I can fully picture them 
escorting a bound figure to the archway and gently pushing them 
through while a crowd watches.  No fuss, no muss.  It was also fairly 
close to the chamber where Harry's hearing was held.  Did they 
dispense with the Death Chamber in favor of Azkaban?  And could this 
be Voldemort's final fate?  Nice, clean way for Harry to kill him, 
and a fitting tribute to Sirius, also.

Nicky Joe