Horcruxes, the Prophesy, where Dumbledore goes, and other secrets

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 154133

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "aceworker" <aceworker at ...> 
wrote:
>
 But something is suspicious about that sleeping 
> portrait. 
> 

Tonks:
I think it makes sense to have the portrait of DD asleep.  He had a 
hard day for one thing. And we need to make the transition from DD 
alive to DD dead before we can see the portrait communicating with 
anyone. Seeing his portrait asleep helps us realize that DD is dead. 
And he is resting peacefully. Isn't that what we say, the image that 
is planted in us by our traditions of funeral homes and funerals? 
Our loved one is asleep. The body is laid out as if asleep and at 
peace. So I don't see the fact that DD is asleep in his portrait as 
unusual or suspicious. It would seem weird IMO to see him talking 
and acting normally when people are still morning his death and 
there hasn't been a funeral yet.  I think that probably all of the 
headmasters portraits looked that way until sometime after their 
funerals.

I agree with the person that said that Phineas will be the first to 
volunteer information to McG. Would be fun to be a mouse in the 
corner to hear that one. Maybe DD will still be asleep when it 
happens. 

Tonks_op