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

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 141718


> Neri:
<snip>
> My book (HBP, US ed, pp. 608-609) describes the fallen Dumbledore as
> follows:
> 
> ************************************************
> 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...
> ************************************************
> 
> I also went over the previous and next pages, and I still can't find
> the words "peaceful expression" or "smile". Help, anybody?
> 
> Neri

Valky:
Ooops, you know Neri, now you point it out I think the Peaceful
expression must come directly from the description of the portrait. 

I take the lack of a described customary look of terror as in other
Avada Kedavra cases, to be quite ambiguous in the case of Dumbledore,
but still lending to No successful AK, and I continue to question that
Dumbledore would have his eyes closed (in death or in the portrait) if
Snape betrayed him or post humous bleeding if he was died of Avada
Kedavra, as there is no precedent for that. Just in case there was
interest in how much more canon there is other than the peaceful
expression for questioning how Dumbledore died. 

Valky