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09-25-2008, 05:36 PM
| | |  J.K. Rowling talks Death Veil in new interview
As part of her two-day interview with Harry, A History author Melissa Anelli, J.K. Rowling spoke about the infamous veil in the Department of Mysteries and various characters' (as well as Daniel Radcliffe's) reactions to it: Quote: JKR: Everyone wanted to go beyond the veil.
MA: This is very canon-based, but there are some things that as a fan, there are things I just gotta know. A lot of fans see the veil as that separation -
JKR: It's the divide between life and death. I tried to do a nod to that in The Tale of Three Brothers - she was separate from them as though through a veil. You can't go back if you pass through that veil, you cannot come back. Or you can't come back in any form that will make either person happy anyway.
But when they surround that veil [in Order of the Phoenix], I was trying to show that depending on their degree of skepticism or belief about what lay beyond - because Luna, of course, is a very skeptical character. Luna believes firmly in an afterlife. She's very clear on that. And she feels them speaking or hears them speaking much more clearly than Harry does. This is the idea of faith. Harry thinks he can hear them; he's drawn on. But Harry's had a life that has been so imbued with death that he now has an uncharacteristically strong curiosity about the afterlife, especially for a boy of 15, as he is in Phoenix. Ron's just scared, as I think Ron would be - he just knows this is something he doesn't want to dabble with. Hermione, hyper-rational Hermione - 'can't hear anything, get away from the Veil.' So if you walk through the veil, you're dead. You're dead. What you find on the other side, well, that's the question.
Do I believe you go on? Yes, I do believe you go on. I do believe in an afterlife, although I'm absolutely doubt-ridden and always have been but there you are.
I had not anticipated, though really I should have done, how interested people would be to go beyond the veil. And lots of people, including Dan [Radcliffe], wanted to go through the veil. But then that shouldn't surprise me because teenagers are very interested.
MA: Dan sort of does get to go beyond the veil.
JKR: Yeah, he does, but not literally through the veil
MA: Not charging through. Ginny, Ginny can hear it because she's been...
JKR: I think women are more likely to hear than men. [Ginny and Harry] really are soulmates. I think she's like Harry. She's got an intellectual curiosity and she's got something of belief. Hermione [is] totally rational. "Let's all back away from the Veil and let's pretend we heard nothing."
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09-25-2008, 05:39 PM
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omg first to reply!!! great interview...
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09-25-2008, 05:49 PM
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Cool interview,That was interesting.
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09-25-2008, 05:56 PM
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It's really lovely to hear her talk about the Veil.. We've all been so very interested in it since OOTP and now to hear it stright from Jo that what we thought it was. Was infact the correct idea, is very satisfying to say the least.
I'll proably go out and Buy Melissa's book when it comes out.. Ether that or borrow it from the Library.
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09-25-2008, 06:13 PM
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09-25-2008, 06:15 PM
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That's really interesting...I like her description of Hermione!  | |
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09-25-2008, 06:18 PM
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Awesome interview, I think I'll get that book.
I really like that part with Harry & Ginny being soulmates.
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09-25-2008, 06:26 PM
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Aww, Harry and Ginny soulmates
I never had thought of why they would all have the reactions they had 
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09-25-2008, 06:28 PM
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I love the interview! Especially the part where she talks about Harry and Ginny being soulmates.
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09-25-2008, 06:30 PM
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Very interesting interview! 
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09-25-2008, 06:37 PM
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Hermione will be Hermione... I just wish she'd put that part about Harry and Ginny being soulmates in the book. Have Harry think it or something.
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09-25-2008, 07:04 PM
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great interview
very interesting
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09-25-2008, 07:17 PM
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great interview, the thing about life after death is kind of hard to believe because no one knows if there is such a thing. i for one wont believe it until ive actually witnessed it myself.
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09-25-2008, 07:26 PM
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I was always curious about that...
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09-25-2008, 07:27 PM
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Finally, answers to the veil. I can't wait to read this book!
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09-25-2008, 07:37 PM
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oooooh interesting...
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09-25-2008, 07:47 PM
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Wow... This was a really good interview. -nods and claps- | |
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09-25-2008, 07:56 PM
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Great interview. A lot of information.
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09-25-2008, 08:11 PM
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GREAT interview!
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09-25-2008, 08:48 PM
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Wonderful interview! I'm glad to have JKR finally say something about the Veil. | |
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09-25-2008, 09:00 PM
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love the explanation! Love Jo!! and Harry and Ginny are soulmates! AWESOME!
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09-25-2008, 09:19 PM
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Very interesting interview!
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09-25-2008, 09:25 PM
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interesting to hear about the veil again!
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09-25-2008, 09:36 PM
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That's a very interesting interview ^^ I'm glad she finally said something more about the veil
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they're gonna try and tell me this wasn't, that none of this happened,
but you know what? It was real. It did happen.
We spent time here. We made friends here. That's a part of us.
Cause Hogwarts is bigger than any of us, of any of it's founders,
and it's going to be around long after we're gone.
Maybe we'll see our kids come here one day.
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wow-that is what I have been wondering about all along!!!~LOL!
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