Significance of missing line (was: HBP paperback)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 156045

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> wrote:
  
> The most likely person to have escaped death is Emmeline Vance, IMO.
> Dumbledore never confirms that she is dead, and her death on
> Snape's information would cement Snape's position with Voldemort.
> 
> The Muggle prime minister thinks she is dead, but we've seen that
> wizards can easily put together a fake crime scene.

Geoff:
But why should we be interested in Emmeline Vance? What do we know 
about her? About enough to write on a postage stamp:

' (Lupin) "Emmeline Vance." A stately-looking witch in an emerald green 
shawl inclined her head.'
(OOTP "The Advance Guard" p.49 UK edition)

'Fudge sighed. ".....And then there was Emmeline Vance, maybe you
didn't hear about that one -"
"Oh. yes I did!" said the Prime Minister. "It happened just round the 
corner from here, as a matter of fact..."'
(HBP "The Other Minister" p.19 UK edition)

'(Snape) "...The Dark Lord is satisfied with the information I have passed 
him on the Order. It led, as perhaps you have guessed, to the recent 
capture and murder of Emmeline Vance..."'
(HBP "Spinner's End" p.35 UK edition)

That's not much information on which to build a character important 
enough to be brought back from the dead.  I see her as a version of 
the red shirt wearers in the original Start Trek series.