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

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No: HPFGUIDX 141783

> > Carol responds:
> >snip<
>  I traced the thread
> > back as far as my own post number 137162
> > 
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/137162
> > 
> > although the idea may go farther back still for all I know.
> 
> >snip< 

> Potioncat:
> Ah, yes, HPfGU contamination. Much more insidious than movie 
> contamination. Even if "peaceful" did start with Carol, it took on a 
> life of its own.
> 

Neri:
All I'll say is - you didn't not go back nearly far enough <g>. This
one goes considerably deeper, and Carol *isn't* the earlier source
that I came across. And as far as I could see it didn't started from
the portrait.


> Potioncat:
 > But I agree with Carol. What ever happened, DD died in a state of 
> peace. He's apparantly satisfied that whatever he asked of Snape will 
> be done or was done. It is not the expression of a betrayed man who 
> is surprised at the AK; or of a regretful man who is disappointed he 
> won't be helping Harry with horcruxes; or of a frightened man who is 
> worried about the safety of his students. It is significant that he 
> looks as if he is sleeping, peacefully, at rest.
>

Neri:
I just hope all the readers realize that the above isn't canon, but
one possible interpretation of it. The canon is:

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HBP, US ed, Ch. 28, ,pp. 608-609:
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...
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Neri