Death in HBP - the school song

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 130250

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "leb2323" <lebiles at c...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Mira <anurim at y...> wrote:
> > The one thing I am curious about is: will the Weasley
> > twins still be the last to finish the song, long after
> > everybody else has become silent? I truly hope Jo will
> > give us this treat, or at least make other characters
> > imitate them in fond remembrance.
> 
> I don't have the book with me so can't confirm this but didn't the 
> twins sing the school song as a funeral dirge?  I hope this wasn't 
> foreshadowing the end of Hogwarts (or the twins for that matter)!
> leb

Geoff:
They did indeed. From canon:

'Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the 
Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march. 
Dumbledore conducted their last few lines with his wand and when they 
had finished, he was one of those who clapped loudest.'

(Philosopher's Stone "The Sorting Hat" p.95 UK edition)