The Veil in the Death Chamber

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--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at y...> 
wrote:
> --- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Judy" <judy at j...> wrote:
> > Fran wrote:
> > >... the Veil is contained in a room 
> > > called the Death Chamber... Could it be where wizards are put 
to 
> > > death, or were at one time put to death?
> > 
> > I remember that this was discussed on HPfGU shortly after OoP 
came 
> > out.  That the room was an execution chamber was one popular 
theory.  
> > However, having it in the Department of Mysteries implies that it 
was 
> > used to *study* death.  And death, of course, is one of the great 
> > mysteries of life.  So, speculation was that people were exucuted 
> > there, and their deaths were studied as they died, or perhaps very
> > old or ill wizards volunteered to go through the Veil, to 
contribute
> > to wizarding knowlegde. 
> 
> Courtroom Ten and the Death Chamber may predate the MoM, though.  
They
> seem older and different from the normal office-style building which
> is the rest of the MoM.  The archway itself looked ancient to 
Harry. 
> I wonder if the MoM weren't built around these two rooms (and 
perhaps
> others -- maybe the locked one, too).  My guess is that the D.C. had
> once been used as an execution chamber, but certainly not since the
> DoM was built around it; can't have  lots of people traipsing 
through
> there now.
> 
> Annemehr

I thought Harry remembered the courtroom from DD pensieve. While they 
may study alot of the things contained in the Dept of M.,I also think 
they keep certain things there as they are dangerous.

Fran