Unanswered

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 175053

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Missy" <missygallant2000 at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "samaramims" <samaramims@> 
> wrote:
> >
> > I'm not sure if this has been answered or not. Has the identity of
> > the individual who was wearing a black veil at DD's funeral been
> > answered?
> > 
> > samaramims
> >
> It could have been Snape.  By this time, everyone thought Snape was a 
> DE and since everyone who was anyone was at the funeral, that would 
> have been Snape signing his own death warrant.  "Hi, I just killed 
> the guy in the coffin, but no problem, I'm here to mourn."  No- that 
> would not have gone over well.
> 
> As was mentioned before, canon says the barman from the Hog's Head 
> was there.
> 
> It also could have been Mundungus.  I can't completely remember if 
> Dung was wanted at this point or not.  But he is the one who was 
> dressed in a black veil at the Hog's Head in OotP.  So- there is 
> precedence for it being Dung.

Geoff:
Folk are missing out on canon....

"He (Harry) had never seen Professor Sprout, Head of the Hufflepuffs, 
looking so clean; there was not a single patch on her hat and when 
they reached the Entrance Hall, they found Madam Pince standing 
beside Filch, she in a thick black veil that fell to her knees, he in an 
ancient suit and tie reeking of mothballs."

(HBP "The White Tomb" p.597 UK edition)