[HPforGrownups] Re: Death rites and such

[Liz Sager]

No: HPFGUIDX 32707

Cindy wrote:
<snip> The other instance is Cedric's murder,
>in which he asks that Harry take his body back to his parents.  This
>suggests that retrieving the body is very important in the wizarding
>world as it is in the muggle world.</snip>

Recently in L.A. we've been reading Greek Tragedy, and earlier, the Iliad 
and the Aeneid, and several times we've talked about how important a proper 
burial was to them. For example, when the Trojans returned Patroclus' body 
to the Greeks, but Achilles did not return Hector's until a plague was 
unleashed on the Greek army, or in "Oedipus Rex" when Jocasta kills herself 
(sorry to anyone I've just ruined that for) Oedipus begs Creon to give her a 
proper burial, and most recently in "Antigone", where Antigone goes to give 
her rebel brother a decent burial when Creon has decreed that he should rot 
in the fields. Maybe such is the case in the wizarding world where a decent 
burial is important to the family and friends or society of the deceased.

Liz

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