Mystery of Caradoc Dearborn

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 109526

Jen:
>  Two canon thoughts to support his return: 1) The only other 
person 
> in the  series who supposedly died, but no body was found, was 
Peter 
> > Pettigrew and 2) Caradoc's passing mention in OOTP was much like 
> the > passing referance to Sirius in Book 1.


> mhbobbin writes:
> hem hem. hem hem.  I'm afraid there are at least two other  
missing 
> bodies.  1) Sirius. Where's the body? Not to drag that up again 
but 
> missing bodies are always suspicious and 2)Benjy Fenwick--"he 
copped 
> it too we only ever found bits of him" (Bits reminds me of 
> Pettigrew's finger). So i just want to throw them on the pile of 
> suspiciously missing bodies. 

Jen: Oh, you're right--I wasn't thinking it through. Of course JKR 
said herself post-OOTP that she'd "killed a character" so unless she 
was lying (doubt it), was referring to someone not yet revealed as 
dead, or is about to introduce reincarnation in Potterverse, Sirius 
is indeed toast. 

Now about Benjy. He and Caradoc could've faked their deaths & gone 
in hiding together. Or the two are totally unrelated. Out of two 
missing bodies, you'd think at least one would return, yes?

Whatever happens, we have canon reasons to be suspicious when a body 
is mysteriously missing. I'm voting for Caradoc, because the missing 
body-part bits of Benjy Fenwick would just be a replay of Peter's 
finger.