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

Ceridwen ceridwennight at hotmail.com
Mon Oct 17 16:01:14 UTC 2005


No: HPFGUIDX 141754

> > 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?

> colebiancardi:
> 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.

Ceridwen:
Apparently, the nausea comes from his headache:
(GoF pg 638 US)
A blast of green light blazed through Harry's eyelids, and he heard 
something heavy fall to the ground beside him; the pain in his scar 
reached such a pitch that he retched, and then it diminished; 
terrified of what he was about to see, he opened his stinging eyes.

On the rushing sound:
(GoF pg 15)
There was a flash of green light, a rushing sound, and Frank Bryce 
crumpled.  He was dead before he hit the floor.

Two hundred miles away, the boy called Harry Potter awoke with a 
start.

And, since I have the book out, on the look of the Riddles, page 2:
"Lying there with their eyes wide open!  Cold as ice!  Still in their 
dinner things!"  (Maid's witness)

...and page four, the autopsy:
The police had never read an odder report.  A team of doctors had 
examined the bodies and had concluded that none of the Riddles had 
been poisoned, stabbed, shot, strangled, suffocated, or (as far as 
they could tell) harmed at all.  In fact (the report continued, in a 
tone of unmistakable bewiderment), the Riddles all appeared to be in 
perfect health - apart from the fact that they were all dead.  The 
doctors did note (as though determined to find something wrong with 
the bodies) that each of the Riddles had a look of terror upon his or 
her face - but as the frustrated police said, whoever heard of three 
people being *frightened* to death?

...And for looks, Cedric again, now dead, pg. 638:
For a second that contained an eternity, Harry stared into Cedric's 
face, at his open gray eyes, blank and expressionless as the windows 
of a deserted house, at his half-open mouth, which looked slightly 
surprised.

I mean, as long as I've got the book out, right?  The spider, pg. 216 
US:
There was a flash of blinding green light and a rushing sound, as 
though a vast, invisible something was soaring through the air - 
instantaneously the spider rolled over onto its back, unmarked, but 
unmistakably dead.  Several of the students stifled cries; Ron had 
thrown himself backward and almost toppled off his seat as the spider 
skidded toward him.

Ceridwen, who thinks she might as well cover all the bases she 
remembers while she has the book out.







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