[HPforGrownups] Re: Riddle's Bones

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 125391

In a message dated 3/1/2005 2:30:01 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
ryokas at hotmail.com writes:
bones do
not last that long in the usual enviroments. Dinosaur bones and the
like only last any amount of damage if they mineralize (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossils ) and human remains need to be
specifically preserved ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy ).

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Sherrie here:

A few years ago (1996), the skeletal remains of a Civil War soldier were 
discovered still buried in the Railroad Cut on the Gettysburg battlefield, when 
they were exposed by heavy rains.  Though there was no way to tell the soldier's 
allegiance, it was sufficiently intact to know that he was killed by a shot 
to the head.  They weren't mineralized (133 years isn't really long enough for 
that, I don't think), and they certainly weren't preserved in any way.

I don't think it beyond belief that the bones of Tom Riddle, Sr., would be 
relatively intact after only 50 years.

Sherrie


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