Snape and Dumbledore on the Tower/ Blood on DD face.

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 165355

Eggplant:
> I don't care what pulp fiction detective stories say, if you drop a 
dead body off a 300 foot tower when it hits the ground not only would 
blood spurt upward it would spurt EVERYWHERE. If JKR can be criticized 
it would be for having far too little blood in that scene, not too much.

Ceridwen:
Well, as I said, I'm no forensics expert.  A few people have answered 
that particular point.  Thanks, by the way, to those who did!

The way bodies bleed is mysterious to me.  Road-kill doesn't seem to 
have a lot of blood, despite severe trauma to the body; a cut finger or 
lip seems to pour out gallons of blood.  Could the fall from a 300 foot 
tower send the blood out like that, or would it clamp the veins shut, 
like being rolled over by the wheels of a train?

So, maybe it isn't necessarily the presence of blood, but too little 
blood and gore that is the something people sense as wrong with DD's 
body after the fall.  Of course our minds jump to what we know (pulp 
fiction detective stories).

Do you think the *lack* of so much gore is odd or telling?  Or is JKR 
merely using poetic visual license in this scene?  I'd like to read 
some more thoughts on this.

Ceridwen.