[HPforGrownups] Re: Thoughts on the Veil

[J]

No: HPFGUIDX 161259

Fazkleto:

I think that there may possibly
be a connection between the Veil and the dementors,
and also between the Veil and the room that Harry & co
could not enter while at the Ministry of Magic. I've heard
it called 'The Room of Love' or something like that,
though I'm not certain if it is called that in canon.
Anyway, any thoughts on the function of the Veil?

Kelly:

Well its also a throwback to Paganism/ Wicca. We believe in the thinning of the veil that seperates this world from the next near Samhain. So the termonology she used makes me think of that. 
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Jeremiah:

To further Kelly's post: when I was practicing Wicca the phrase that was used for Samhain (aka: Halloween) was "this is the night that the veil between the worlds is thinnest" meaning there is always a passage/portal between the realms of life and death and, like Dumbledore said, death is but the next adventure... to the well organized mind.

I think JKR is using the different rooms to "house" all the major aspects of living: Love, Time, Thoughts (those pesky brains) and Death. Then there are the prophesies and other things that cannot be readily explained. Death is such a strong event that using a veil to separate the realms of the living and the dead makes death not so scary but ever so definite. (this is my visceral reaction to the imagry JKR uses). And, I think it brought a tangible quality to a life event which a child Harry's age would not fully comprehend. He faces death for the first time in a way he can understand it (I say this to exclude his parent's death since he was too little to recall the entire even or the emotional context of it).

Like death, it's a one-way ticket. But I wonder about the effect on the soul that passes through? Since they do not die in the conventional way is there something that differs with them when they pass or am I being too inquisative?

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