More puzzling DH questions from a Muggle -- the Veil

[Stephen Kimmel]

No: HPFGUIDX 172771

> > Mindy:
> > 1) We never find out the theory or background behind
> > the veil that Sirius falls through, and his body is
> > never recovered. was JK ever planning to address that?

> AggiePaddy:
> I always assumed that it was the Room of Death - one of
> the things the MOM was investigating and that the veil
> was just a doorway to death. End of. No body, no reprieve,
> just death.


"Beyond the Veil" is a fairly common phrase referring simply
to death.  Thus when Sirius dies and falls beyond the veil,
JK is doing an elaborate pun. Nothing more.

Stephen