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

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 141785

Geoff wrote:
<snip quotes from GOF> 
> Unlike Dumbledore, none of these people could be described as if 
> they "might have been sleeping". The Riddles are terrified, Cedric 
> is uncomprehending, Dumbledore appears asleep. Can we draw any 
> conclusions about what caused Dumbledore's death?

Valky responds:
That is the one question I am certain I can answer, and the answer is
No. I don't think we have the knowledge required to do so. Which IMO
is very clever of Jo as it gives her *miles* of space to wiggle Snapes
neck out of the noose if thats the plan, while still being /generally/
believable if he's to stay there.

> Geoff:
> An AK or not an AK? That is the question. Whether tis nobler in the 
> mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to 
> take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing be a 
> DDM!Snaper.
> (with apologies to the Bard!!)

Valky:
<bg> and applause. Great show, Geoff mind if I join ? ;D

Did Snape Kill! perchance to imagine - ay, there's the rub, For in
that moment of death, What results *should* come, When Dumbledore has
shuffled off this mortal coil.

and further apologies. :S



 
> > 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)

< ...and then downthread.>

> Geoff wrote:
> Referring back to Wormtail's spell, Valky wrote:
> 
> "The swishing in the case of Cedric, I'd then say, is the sound of
> Pettigrew raising the wand in congruence with the order of the
> description."
> 
> Where else have we had a sound effect of someone rasing a wand? It 
> seems to run counter to other descriptions.
>

Valky:
Got me there Geoff. All I can think of is the 'Swish and Flick'. 
But rereading the quote a second time I have realised it can be pared
down to construe as the noise of 'rushing death' by the fact that the
sentence reads, A swishing noise *and* the voice saying Avada Kedavra.
If JKR wanted she could tell us it was meant to imply that the two
things were simultaneous. But I am tangling myself in knots trying to
maintain that consistency with the other AK's. I take that as having
pared down too far. <g>