The graveyard at Hogwarts

[quigonginger]

No: HPFGUIDX 138907

 "Jo Marelvy Samudio" wrote:
> I remember an interview with Alfonso Cuarón (director - HPand the
> POA) 
> in which he was talking about his interaction with JKR. He stated
> that 
> when he wanted to place some action (scene) in the hogwarts grounds
> (I 
> believe Hermione vs Draco), he -Cuarón- asked for JKR's opinion,
> and 
> she said that it could not be done at the north (? - I'm not sure
> about 
> that)because there IS a graveyard in that part of the grounds and
> that 
> it was highly significant!!! (snip)
 Will Dumbledore's grave be 
> there? 

Ginger:  That bugged me on my first reading of the book.  MM says 
that DD wants to be laid to rest at Hogwarts, but that it is up to 
the Ministry as *no other headmaster or headmistress has ever... (she 
trails off here).  So if there is a graveyard there, who's buried in 
it?  Surely the founders would count as heads.  If it isn't done for 
heads, then it must not be for teachers too.  Students would be 
buried with family, which leaves....House Elves?  

Unless merfolk have a "burial at land". ;)

I'd like some info on that as well. 

*reference US p.629.

OH!  A last-second thought!  What if the founders are buried there 
and one of them has a tombstone that is a horcrux?  Right under DD's 
nose!  Nah, he'd probably have found it.  Oh, well.

Ginger, finally caught up after 2 weeks of behindness