Emmeline: As dead as we think? (was Harry IS Snape!)

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 141175

Deb:
*(snip)*
> I also think a 
> similar "fate" might have befallen Amelia Bones. Another "nasty 
> killing", according to the Muggles Prime Minister, to frighten the 
> muggles, pulled off in a locked room, and keep their "please men" 
> busy. Even though LV is alleged by Fudge to have killed her himself 
> and she "put up a real fight"... 

Ceridwen:
Not suggesting that this is the case, but just here, I had visions of 
Slughorn's temporary living quarters when Dumbledore and Harry first 
stopped to visit.  It looked like a terrible battle had been fought 
there, and that Slughorn had put up a fight.  The only thing missing 
was the Dark Mark, but then, Slughorn didn't have a lot of time, 
being in the bath and all when his alarms sounded.

Though, I did get the impression there was a body for the Muggle 
authorities to find, which there wasn't with Slughorn, unless you 
knew which chair to poke.  The mega-sleeping-potion Draught of Living 
Death would provide one for them.

Still, I'd have to assume they would cart the body off to the morgue 
for the forensics experts to examine, and for an autopsy to be done, 
if that was the case.  Unless her relatives showed up saying their 
religion or customs forbade autopsies.  Or, that they preferred one 
not be done, if the cause of 'death' is sufficiently visible, or if 
the British government respects personal wishes apart from religious 
or cultural claims.  (Of course, these are supposedly children's 
books, so all of that could reasonably be ignored if the author chose)

Unless there was no body.  Death has been presumed in some cases 
where the body was never found.  Just the magnitude of the 
destruction, and perhaps copious swaths of dragon's blood.  But, when 
I read it, I assumed bodies in the two cases, so there must have 
been.  And there's no reason to think that Emaline Vance didn't have 
forewarning as well as Amelia Bones, if it was Snape's information 
which led to her 'death'.  So, the Draught of Living Death could as 
easily have been used by her, too.  Given especially DDM!Snape, 
lesser, OFH!Snape.  And, why make that claim on the Tower if hiding 
people by pretending their deaths hasn't been done before?

(I also wonder why Snape didn't claim involvement in Amelia Bones's 
death as well as Emaline Vance's.  Did he think that would be OTT, 
given non-ESE!Snape?  Or did he actually have no involvement?)

Ceridwen.