*When* did Dumbledore die?

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No: HPFGUIDX 145123

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:

> It was fresh enough to wipe away. 

But JKR is sometimes rather nonchalant.

> There's a simple spell, by the way, which could clear Snape
> of the AK or convict him *and* allow Dumbledore to explain 
> what he meant by his last word. Priori incantatem. If there's no 
> shade of Dumbledore,then Dumbledore was not AK'd by Snape's 
> wand. If there is, then Dumbledore's shade can either accuse 
> Snape or explain why Snape should not be blamed for killing him.
> 
But then they have to catch Snape first, and perform that spell. They
did not bother with Sirius, so why would they now? 

Gerry