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

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 141762

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Ceridwen" <ceridwennight at h...> 
wrote:

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.

Geoff:
I would have quoted this sentence also. My take is that this is 
because of the nearness of Voldemort - and his vicarious involvement 
in the Avada Kedavra - rather than the AK itself.