Blood Protection/Dumbledore and Harry

[Cyril A Fernandes]

No: HPFGUIDX 158994

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_svirn" <a_svirn at ...> wrote:
>
> Cyril:
> As I mentioned in my last post (#158847), the reason that the WW knows
> of the quick downfall of LV is because he leaves his *dead* body behind.
> 
> a_svirn:
> That's possible, but not likely, I'd say. No one has ever mentioned
> anything about the body. And, surely, that would have been the most
> obvious argument for Fudge and Co to use. And Rowling is careful to
> use "he's gone" instead he "died". She used the same formula for
> Sirius and in that case a body was also absent.
>

Cyril:

LV himself mentioned that he was ripped from his body, after his
rebirthing. He never said his body was destroyed. At the time, nobody
know how LV had gone - but they know he was gone. The simplest and
most logical explanation I can find which has some canon support is
that his body was there.

I believe Rowling uses her words very carefully, because she knows
that he is not dead. But as far as the WW knows (with few exceptions),
they believe him to be dead. Even many of his faithful DE's believed
him to be dead.

IMO, with Sirius, the picture is very different. Siring was not AK's,
given the red light he was hit with, instead of green light. It is
also not clear if it was the curse that killed him, or because he went
behind the veil. The reason we do not have a body is because he passed
through the veil - and given our little knowledge about that, we
cannot equate it to what happened to LV.

Cyril.