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

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 141763

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at t...> wrote:
>
> --- 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.
>

thanks, ceridwen & Geoff.  See what happens WHEN I don't have my 
books in front of me?  I just remembered that Harry got sick when the 
AK happened.

colebiancardi
(who wishes JKR would have given us bullet points on how an AK looks, 
feels & works)