New Clue - Graveyard at Hogwarts

[Eustace_Scrubb]

No: HPFGUIDX 99814

Melissa wrote:
> > >Someone asked why would J/L have been buried at Hogwarts I want 
> > to know why they wouldn't have been?

Then Eustace_Scrubb:
> > I agree yours is a good question.  For one thing, if the Potters 
> > left no living relatives save Harry, Petunia and Dudley, who
> > would have been in charge of funeral arrangements?  Of their
> > close friends, Sirius and Peter were gone as well within 24 hours 
> > or so. My guess would be that Dumbledore would have filled the 
> > role.
 
Next Earendil:
> I'm the one who asked in another post why J/L would have been
> buried at Hogwarts. (maybe someone else asked though)
<snip>
> And then I read your post. I think you have a point. With no living 
> relatives, taking care of funeral arrangements would be a problem, 
> and it would explain a burial at Hogwarts if DD had filled the
> role.  However, you forgot Lupin among the close friends...He could
> have  taken care of funeral arrangements, that was the least he  
> could do for his friends...
<snipped speculation about resting place of Wormtail's digit> 

Eustace_Scrubb:
You're right, I didn't mention Lupin, though that was sort of on
purpose.  I'm not really sure why, but I have a feeling that people
wouldn't have looked to Lupin to take charge...maybe it's just that I
know he's a werewolf and most of those he was dealing with didn't?  On
the other hand, it would have been a most difficult moment for him, as
he'd lost three friends himself (perhaps his only three _real_
friends).  In some ways, Godric's Hollow left Lupin quite as alone as
it did Harry.  (Of course, the ESE!Lupin fans would have quite a
different take on this.)  Even though Lupin was available, I'd expect
an authority figure such as Dumbledore to make
arrangements...especially if, as some later posters theorize, DD
wanted to make sure the bodies were protected from tampering by dark
wizards later.

Cheers,

Eustace_Scrubb