DD death

[chrusotoxos]

No: HPFGUIDX 152660

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Adzuroth" <adzuroth at ...> wrote:

> Am I the only one who thinks there's something a wee bit wrong with the 
> belief that Dumbledore suddenly got tired of living and decided to die 
> on his knees at the hands of Snape, begging for his life?  
> If you hit someone with the killing curse, they simply fell over 
> dead as opposed to getting knocked backwards over a battlement.
> 
> P.S.- anyone have an idea as to why JKR called the undead inferi 
> instead of using the more popular nomenclature of zombies?
> 
> Adzuroth
>

Chrus now

I don't think that DD 'suddenly got tired of living'. I think that he knew about the whole 
Draco debacle, and chose this way to solve it because he was already dying. He was old, 
and 'his last duel with the Dark Lord has wounded him greatly' (HPB ch.1). He was not 
afraid of dying, and he probably will still talk to Harry through his portrait.
As for the battlement, I think Snape hated him in that moment, because he was forcing 
him to kill him and he didn't want to ('he said that mybe he was taking too much for 
granted, and that he didn't want to do it anymore', as Hagrid overhears). The curse pushes 
you back, as for Sirius in OotP, and thus DD fell down. Also, JKR needed him to fall down 
for aesthetic plot beauty - nobody would have found him for hours, if DD were dead on 
the top of a tower vs beautiful scene of mourning crowd overshadowed by weeping 
Hagrid.

Inferius is a latin word for 'subterrenean'. JKR always tries to use old words for spells and 
stuff, such as Sanskrit Avada Kedavra. Also, zombies aren't the same thing: they're undead 
for various reasons and normally kill at random, you cannot raise them and command 
them.