Another DH question

[justcarol67]

zanooda wrpte:
> > Another one of those silly questions: in the sentence "... he wrenched his mind back to his own body, fighting to remain present as the prisoners were pushed over gravel" I'm a little confused about the "over gravel" part :-). Does it mean that they were pushed forward to follow the gravel-covered driveway, 
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> Kemper replied:
> Fwiw, I read it as your orignial.  They were being lead to the manor and not the driveway.
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> Kemper
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Carol responds:

Very quickly, without looking up the passage to see whether I'm right, I think that they're led to the same gate that Snape and Yaxley pass through earlier by showing their Dark Marks. Presumably, since the Malfoys own neither a car nor a carriage, they follow a gravel walkway rather than a driveway to get there. Harry can't see well both because it's night (IIRC) and because Hermione's jinx has blurred his vision, so possibly he feels and hears the crunch of gravel under his feet. Odd--I never noticed the reference to gravel. But pushed *over* gravel suggests that the Snatchers were pushing them to make them walk faster (hard to do when you're bound back to back--or did someone untie them?) rather than pushing them *onto* the gravel-covered ground.

Carol, hoping that she understood zanooda's question correctly