Bloomsbury Screen Saver! SPOILER

[heather the buzzard]

No: HPFGUIDX 130506

Chancie wrote:

>http://www.mugglenet.com/viewer/?image_location=/hbp/ring.gif
>
>
>         ~*S*~
>         ~*P*~
>         ~*O*~
>         ~*I*~
>         ~*L*~
>         ~*E*~
>         ~*R*~
>          ~*~
>          ~*~
>         SPACE
> *********************
>
>This page includes a VERY close up view of the Ring,
>and of the Hands in the "rope of fire".
>
>It's clear that one of the hands appears to be MUCH
>older than the second as many have said, and the ring
>appears to be more black than anything else from what 
>I can see. 
>

heather:

I just offhandedly said to my SO that maybe the hands are Harry reaching through the veil to grab Sirius, the fire is some magical bond needed to connect them through the 'dimensions', for to pull 
him back through. 

He said "Oooooooooooohhh... good one!!"

He also thinks that the scene in the water cave is reminiscent of 
the River Styx and is hypothesizing based on that idea.  The 
pensieve could be at the entrance to whatever the equivalent is in JKR's world, where all the 'dead' must leave their memories before going on into the underworld.  So my idea of reaching 'through the veil' ties in with that quite nicely.

If it were an entrance to the dwellingplace of the dead, then you 
probably would need a magical (glowing gold) boat to get there, 
and there could be an eerie boatman who can only be 'seen' in reflections.  (Maybe that's what powers the first-year's boats too heheh)  And imagine what you could learn by delving into THAT pensieve!

That would open up all kinds of possibilities for what DD and 
Harry are looking at in the first US 'pensieve' cover.  James and Lily's memories?  Other ancestors?

heather the buzzard