OOP: EVEN DUMBLEDORE HAS MAGICAL LIMITS

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No: HPFGUIDX 64540

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "marephraim" <leef at c...> wrote:
> Sue  wrote:
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> > Also, if this was not possible why didn't Dumbledore simply 
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> > 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 
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> > 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
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> 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.'
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> 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)
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> M.E.

M.E. --- Sirius was not dead before he hit the groud/veil.  He was 
not AK'd.  He was stunned ('the second shot of [red] light') and FELL 
through/into the veil.  The veil, purportedly a one-way portal to the 
afterlife is what took Sirius from the land of the living to the 
beyond.

Arya