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

[eileen_nicholson]

No: HPFGUIDX 141966

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

> Ceridwen:
> In Spinner's End, page 29 US, Bellatrix seems to think the Order 
showed up much too soon:
> "They were joined, as you very well know, by half of the Order 
before 
long!"  snarled Bellatrix.
> 
> Snape doesn't say anything to this, as Bellatrix moves on to why he 
> doesn't reveal the location of Order headquarters, and it's just 
left 
> lying in the dust.  'Before long' indicates something less than 
five 
> hours, to me. 
> Ceridwen.


In my view we have one piece of canon for the timetable here, on how 
long Harry and his minions spent below ground level before the Order 
members arrived and JKR disposed of Sirius:

'Come seek us where our voices sound, 
We cannot sing above the ground, 
And while you're searching, ponder this: 
We've taken what you'll sorely miss,
An hour long you'll have to look, 
And to recover what we took, 
But past an hour - the prospect's black
Too late, it's gone, it won't come back.'    

GoF Ch25 The Egg and the Eye, P402 in UK paperback.

A bit obscure, I know, but perhaps an extra straw for the straw man.

Eileen