OOP: EVEN DUMBLEDORE HAS MAGICAL LIMITS

[marephraim]

No: HPFGUIDX 64506

Sue  wrote:
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> Also, if this was not possible why didn't Dumbledore simply 
intervene 
> and save Sirius?  Just a minute before as a Death Eater tried to 
> escape from the "arena of death", Dumbledore's "spell pulled him 
back 
> as easily and effortlessly as though he had hooked him with an 
> invisible line".
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> SO when Bellatrix hit Sirius with her second jet of light and 
Harry 
> jumped down the steps pulling out his wand and Dumbledore  turned 
to 
> the dais too, and Sirius seemed to take an age to fall-WHY, OH WHY 
> did Dumbledore NOT cast the same spell he had used on the DE and 
pull 
> Sirius to safety? It would appear the greatest wizard that ever 
was 
> has limits to his talent.  What do you think.
> Sue

The apparent slowness in the description of Sirius's fall is a 
literary device used to indicate the focus of attention. When 
something really dreadful happens people have a tendency to attend 
to it with such force that they remember it in detail, thus they 
describe it as experiencing it 'in slow motion.'

Dumbledore didn't pull Sirius back for two reasons. Firstly, he 
didn't have time to react, and secondly because Sirius was dead 
before he fell through the curtain (similar to Cedric and Frank in 
GoF)

M.E.