Blood

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 149147

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kathy King" <kking0731 at ...> 
wrote:
> 
But
> again if it were internal bleeding that began as a result of the 
fall, would
> Dumbledore continue to bleed once his heart had stopped previous to 
the fall
> due to the AK? If you throw a dead body a hundred feet would fresh 
blood
> bleed from the mouth for a half an hour? 

Good forensic points.  I would not think it would be unusual for a 
dead body to expel a small amount of fresh blood after being dropped 
a hundred feet.  I agree that it would be unusual for it to bleed for 
half an hour.  Having said that, I don't think such issues came 
anywhere close to crossing JKR's mind.  Just as she doesn't bother to 
work out the speed of owls, so she did not, I think, care in any way 
whether she was being realistic about blood drying.


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