Could Deathly Hallows refer to Harry going beyond the veil.

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 163316

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "derenmcc" <derenmcc at ...> wrote:
>
> <lone_white_werewolf@> wrote:
> >
> > Why did Sirius have to die by going beyond the veil, if he
> > needed to die so that Harry could learn to support himself
> > why didn't JK Rowling have Bellatrix Avada Kederva (sic) him?
> > Could it be a hint that there is something important beyond
> > the veil,...

Derenmcc
> I think you may have the right idea.  I do not think that if Sirius
> were Avada Kadavra'd previous to falling through the veil, that he
> would have had time to react.  All previous mentions of victims simply
> have them collapsing. 

Geoff:
I think that you are drawing a conclusion on too little evidence. If I 
remember correctly, there are only two occasions in the books where 
an Avadra Kedavra curse is used while we, as readers, are present. 
One is the death of Cedric in "Goblet of Fire" and the second is when 
Snape uses it on Dumbledore in "Half Blood Prince". Other instances 
are referred to: it would seem that the Riddle family in "Goblet of Fire" 
were killed by this means and it was used on Harry's parents but he 
only retains a memory of a green flash. 

The two instances I have quoted produced different effects; Cedric 
apparently fell directly to the ground - Harry having his eyes closed
at that moment only heard the sound of a fall - while Dumbledore 
was blasted into the air and over the battlements of the tower.

This is not the only case of a spell producing differing effects. In the 
scene in the Shrieking Shack in "Prisoner of Azkaban", the Expelliarmus 
curse is used twice and on each occasion produces slightly differing 
results.

I think that before we can make general statements about the outcome
of curses, we need to be able to look at a larger sample of results.