Regulus Black theory...not my own! And question about the dead

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 91219

LizVega:
Speaking of bodies, do we know anything about the Wizarding World's 
customs for disposing of the dead? I can't think of one dead 
person, and I mean a witch or wizard in this case, that we know where
their bodies are. Can anyone think of anything on this?

 
MaggieB: 
> I don't have my books with me, but I believe that we are told that 
> Moody!Crouch transfigured his father's body into a bone and buried it 
> near Hagrid's hut.  I also remember Moody!Crouch saying that his 
> mother continued taking polyjuice potion and was buried still
looking like him. Father!Crouch faked his wife's death and that grave
is empty. I think burial is at least one of the accepted methods of 
> disposing of a magical body.

Carol:
Just a small postscript to that MaggieB's example: The Dementors
buried Mrs. Crouch's body (Polyjuiced to look like her son's) on the
island of Azkaban. (Sirius watched them do it through the little
window in his cell.) Also, Cedric's shadow self asks Harry to return
his body to his parents, presumably so it can be buried and not left
lying in the open in the Muggle graveyard. (I shudder to think what
would have happened to it there.) I think that wizards must have their
own cemeteries or bury the dead on their own land where Muggles won't
observe the burial or see the gravestone.

I also think that the DEs knew they were in a *Muggle* graveyard in
GoF. I wonder if Malfoy, at least, figured out who was buried there.
He may have figured out what Bellatrix, who was in Azkaban at the
time, clearly didn't know--that LV is a half-blood.

Carol, who is now going to start humming "Secret Agent Man" every time
she reads Snape's name (which is what I get for not skipping the filks)