Inferi (was Re: What things that you wanted did you get? (was: Killing Harry)

[va32h]

No: HPFGUIDX 175629

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "guzuguzu" <guzuguzu@> wrote:
 
With the inferi guarding the locket in HBP, I thought that in DH 
Harry would have to face more, possibly including someone he 
recognized(someone like Cedric). When Voldemort cracked Dumbledore's 
tomb, I was afraid it was going to be him, foreshadowed by the dust-
dolly Dumbledore that was guarding Grimmauld Place. I was happy that 
was all just my imagination running wild, because that would have been
monumentally creepy!

va32h:
Monumentally creepy or incredibly awesome? I think both. One of JKR's 
strengths is her ability to come up with some truly terrifying 
imagery. Voldemort's eyeballs in the locket? Nagini emerging from 
Bathilda's rotting corpse? I absolutely hate horror movies, but I 
found those passages both fascinating and sickening. 

That's what I imagined Dark Magic to be. 

> Potioncat:
> Me too! I was really afraid we'd see Inferi Moody since they didn't 
find his body. And, like you, I thought LV might have done something 
with DD'S body. I was very glad it didn't happen. I thought we might 
see RAB, since I was sure he was in the lake.
> 
> So what was up with all the talk about Inferi in HBP? Why did JKR 
give us that DADA lesson about Inferi? I thought it'd be very 
important for someone to know that the animated body wasn't the 
person at all.

va32h:

I wondered that too (why bother bringing up Inferi if she wasn't 
going to use them). Maybe she just had too many action packed escapes 
already. Despite the lengthy camping scenes, I really think DH has 
more action and dramatic escapades than any other book. 

Still - she could have slipped one in the Battle of Hogwarts - every 
other type of creature was in there, why not?

va32h