Immediately, the veil and the archway feel unsettling, and questions instantly arise: What is this archway, this veil? Where did it come from? The archway and the veil are shrouded in the unknown, which is the first clue that the world past the veil is a world inaccessible to the living. The group enters a strange, rather frightening room, in which, “unsupported by any surrounding wall, archway was hung with a tattered black curtain or veil which, despite the complete stillness of the cold surrounding air, was fluttering very slightly as though it had just been touched” (1005). The veil in the archway appears in Chapter 34 of The Order of the Phoenix, when Harry and his friends are frantically searching the Department of Mysteries for Sirius. A living person cannot access the world of the dead, so when Sirius passes through the archway, he dies.
I believe that the veil and the archway are the literal threshold between the world of the living and the world of the dead. Here, I’d like to suggest a theory as to what the veil in the archway might be, and how exactly Sirius Black might have died.
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