Wizarding Funerals (was Re: Re :Percy Weasly)

[Bill and Diana Sowers]

No: HPFGUIDX 107707

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "william_mclamb" 
<william_mclamb at y...> wrote:
> Don't Wizards have funerals?  While Crouch jr.'s could probably be 
> hushed up how could Crouch sr.'s and Cedric's?  If I were 
Dumbledore I 
> would have used these as opportunities to spread the word of you 
know 
> who's return.

I can't imagine Dumbledore feeling that Cedric's funeral be used for 
anything other than a means of honoring the life of this boy and 
allowing his parents (and others who loved him) the opportunity to 
express their grief/love for him.

Rowling has a great gift here as a writer in not "bumping off" 
characters and then moving the plot along as though they no longer 
matter.  She shows how death touches the living and that the dead 
continue to live on in the hearts and minds of those who loved them.

Bill