Blood

[Neri]

No: HPFGUIDX 149184

 
> Pippin:
> 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
> 

Neri:
I'm forcefully reminded here of certain prominent listies trying to
convince me that the several hours it took Snape to notify the Order
about Harry's disappearance in OotP are most probably a flint. At one
point I mentioned that JKR wouldn't need an almanac to find when does
the sun rise and set, since this information can be found very easily
by Googling "Edinburgh", "sunset" and "sunrise". It was Pippin who
informed me that JKR wouldn't be internet-savvy enough to know that
<g>. It seems that the criteria for what can be a flint are pretty
flexible, depending on whether this flint would help Snape's case or not.

> Pippin:
> 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.
> 

Neri:
Erm... I'm not sure I agree on anything that isn't obvious in "Harry
wiped a trickle of blood from the mouth with his own sleeve". It isn't
obvious to me, for example, if it means that the trickle was from the
mouth or did Harry wipe it from the mouth. That is, was the blood on
the lips, on the skin of the face or on hair? It seems that wiping
blood from wet lips, for example, should be considerably easier than
wiping it from hair. It isn't even obvious if Harry wiped it off
*completely*, and not if it was liquid or a dry-up trickle. I'd say
it's much easier for me to buy a flint consisting of half-a-sentence
ambiguous description than to buy a flint of several hours delay
consisting of several repeated and quite unambiguous descriptions.

Neri