[HPforGrownups] Blood on DD face again WAS: Re: Is Snape good or evil?

[Karen]

No: HPFGUIDX 149060


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  From: pippin_999 

  Pippin:
  Trouble is,  it wasn't right after the fall that Harry found him.

  "Harry walked alongside him, feeling the aches and pains in his
  face and his legs where the various hexes of the last half hour
  had hit him, though in an oddly detached way, as if someone
  was suffering near him." --HBP US p 608.

  So, half an hour after Dumbledore supposedly was AK'd...

  "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."

  I ask you, how could the blood have dried if it's a  trickle?
  How could it have dried if Harry wiped it with his sleeve?

  kchuplis:

  This is your conclusive proof? It's for the moment. For Harry to touch DD (which I don't think he ever got to do really when DD was alive except for apparating or when he was ill) with affection. It was an understated moment of trauma and affection. So what if, in RL, blood would have dried. I seriously doubt that is about anything other than dramatic liscense. And I don't begrudge it. It's a tear pulling moment. 

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