Blood

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 149172

> Lupinlore:
> > 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.
> 
> Ceridwen:
> But, she was pretty good about Harry's dried blood when Draco stomped 
> his nose.  Hermione had to use her wand to syphon it off his face.

Pippin:
There's a motif of  blood  running through the last two books. 
Umbridge's quill and Katie's noseblood in OOP, then in HBP the dragon's 
blood, Harry's nosebleed, Dumbledore's cut to enter the cave, Harry's cut, 
then the trickle in question. Not to mention Dumbledore's cryptic statement
that Harry's blood is more precious than his. 

BTW, forensic information isn't hard to find at all -- a
google  on blood wipe hair produced this site: 

http://www.aaronelkins.com/forensictidbits.htm

which also has interesting information about death by falling

At least we all seem to agree that the blood as described has
not coagulated and shouldn't  be there half an hour 
after death.

The trouble with arguing that it was a Flint, or artistic 
license, or cosmic disregard for logic, is that you can 
use those arguments to dispose of any evidence that you find
inconvenient for your theories. You might as well argue that
Harry is going to wake up back in the cupboard and find
that it was all a dream.

Pippin
who was indeed thinking that between menstruation and careless children
it'd be the rare mother who hasn't cleaned blood off all sorts of things