The Veil and The Mirror

Tonks tonks_op at yahoo.com
Tue May 30 03:43:27 UTC 2006


No: HPFGUIDX 153109

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "carolinayerbe" 
<carolinayerbe at ...> wrote:
>
> Hi! I'm new to the group, so I'm not sure if this has been 
covered. 
> 
> I'd like to know what you all think the nature of The Veil is... 
what do Lupin and Luna know about it? Why doesn't Harry ask more 
questions about it?
> 
> Also, what's the nature of the small mirror Sirius gave Harry? Is 
it going to play an important role in book 7? It must be there for a 
> reason, what it is?
 
Tonks:
Welcome to the group Pepa. 

As to the Veil. I think it is a portal to the next world, the 
afterlife. Luna knows that people are there, but if you remember 
Harry heard the voices too. I think that Luna is sensitive to the 
spiritual world. She is very insightful and open to possibilities in 
ways that Muggles and even some wizards are not. Luna, IMO, 
represents our right brain thinking. As to Lupin, I am not sure how 
it is that he knows about the Veil, but he knows that those who go 
behind it are dead. How he knows that I don't have a clue, since the 
veil is part of experiments at the MoM. He could knows because Tonks 
and Arthur who work at the MoM may know about it. Or DD may know 
about it too, and he may have told members of the Order.

About the mirror. There is such a thing as a scrying mirror.  I hope 
that isn't what JKR is going to do with it, but I think that it may 
be where she is going in a very thinly disguised way.  A real 
scrying mirror is used in divination, like a crystal ball, as I 
understand it. But it can also be used to contact the dead or to go 
into the astral world. (Its main purpose to to get the scryer in 
touch with their subconcious through projection.)

Frankly I think JKR is in enough trouble with people who think that 
she is leading kids into real witchcraft, so having Harry use a real 
scrying mirror would not be a good idea. IMO.

Can't remember if the mirror Harry has is black or an ordinary 
mirror. If I remember correctly, it looked like an ordinary mirror. 
A scrying mirror is black so you can not see your own reflection.

I do think that if we see it again it will be for some sort of 
communication with Sirius. Hopefully the average HP fan will 
not 'get' the connection to the real thing. 

Tonks_op 









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