Oh yeah, its the Dementor-Veiled-Gateway-Connection-Theory

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Re the context of The Veil in the plot-line - just noticed in my 
fifth consecutive re-read of all 5 books (no obsessive tendencies 
here...)
At the Christmas dinner in POA we are apparently meant to regard 
Trelawney's rantings about 13 dining together and "the first to 
rise..." as "tripe". Ron and Harry get up together, we don't know 
which one first. Yet at Harry's first meal at 12 Grimmauld Place in 
OOP, 13 sit down to dine and Sirius is first to rise: "Sirius started 
to rise from his chair. 'Molly, you're not the only person at this 
table who cares about Harry,' said Lupin sharply. 'Sirius, sit 
down.'" One might argue that Molly went to fetch rhubbarb crumble 
halfway through the meal, but the wording here was "got to her feet" 
and it was before the meal was over.
When Harry thinks he hears voices from behind the veil, he seems to 
recognise 2 people - Sirius (and I still can't bear to repeat what 
happened to him cause it would make it too real...) and Ron. Are the 
voices those of loved ones who are to die in the relatively near 
future? There must also be some significance to the fact that Luna 
hears voices, Ginny and Neville also appear transfixed but Ron and 
Hermione hear nothing, though Hermione's acute instinct for danger is 
alerted.

I've now switched to reading Stephen King's Salem's Lot for some 
light relief...

Therese