Dumbledore's "“peaceful expression”? (was: Dumbledore's pleading)

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No: HPFGUIDX 141717


> > Carol:
> > However, the blood is not the only incongruous detail that 
> requires an
> > explanation. So do the closed eyes (not seen in any AK victim--
> Cedric,
> > the Riddles), the peaceful expression (I know you've argued that DD
> > had come to terms with death, and I agree, but an AK wouldn't give 
> him
> > time to compose his expression--or close his eyes), <snip>

 > CV:
 <snip>
> 
> The smile? There is no way that an AK victim would have the time or 
> inclination to smile. They don't even put on a death grimace. This 
> was Dumbledore's reaction to his own joke on everybody. 
> 

Neri:
OK, I must have missed something, because I don't have the time to
read all (or even most) of the posts in HPfGU these days. So can
someone explain to me how everybody knows that Dumbledore had a
"peaceful expression" when he died, or that he had a "smile" on his face?

My book (HBP, US ed, pp. 608-609) describes the fallen Dumbledore as
follows:

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Dumbledore's eyes were closed; but for the strange angle of his arms
and legs, he might have been sleeping. Harry reached out, straightened
the half-moon spectacles upon the crooked nose, and wiped a trickle of
blood from the mouth with his own sleeve. Then he gazed down at the
wise old face and tried to absorb the enormous and incomprehensible
truth: that never again would Dumbledore speak to him, never again
could he help...
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I also went over the previous and next pages, and I still can't find
the words "peaceful expression" or "smile". Help, anybody?

Neri