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

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 141752

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at t...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "M.Clifford" <Aisbelmon at h...> 
> wrote:
> 
> Neri:
> > > Another interesting inconsistency I found is that in the Frank 
Brice
> > > case and in the spider case there's a "rushing sound" after the 
> > > green light, which in the spider case is further described "as 
> > > though a vast, invisible something was soaring through the 
air". 
> > > This quite distinct sound is *not* described in Cedric's case, 
nor 
> > > in the fox case, nor in any of the many AKs in the MoM, nor on 
the 
> > > tower. <snip> So did Cedric too die from something else? And 
what 
> > > about the fox? 
> > 
> > Valky:
> > The rushing sound, I have to admit is genuinely inconsistent in 
the
> > text. 
> 
> Geoff:
> 'From far away, above his head, he heard a high, cold voice 
say, "Kill 
> the spare."
> A swishing noise and a second voice, which screeched the words to 
the 
> night "Avada Kedavra!"
> A blast of green light blazed through Harry's eylids and he heard 
> something heavy fall to the ground beside him...'
> 
> (GOF "Flesh, Blood and Bone" p.553 UK edition)
> 
> Referring to your comment above,I realise it seems to be in the 
wrong 
> order but how do you interpret the swishing noise?
>

also, I don't have my GoF or OotP books in front of me - but doesn't 
Harry feel sick to his stomach when the AK whizzed past him?  I 
believe it was in GoF.  Harry didn't feel nauseated when Snape *AK*'d 
DD in HBP.  

just more food for thought.

colebiancardi