CHAPDISC: HBP30, The White Tomb

[Dondee Gorski]

No: HPFGUIDX 165758

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_svirn" <a_svirn at ...> wrote:
> Questions:

<snip> 3. What do you make of Harry's mood at the beginning of the 
> chapter? Is his apathy a way to cope with the shock of 
Dumbledore's death, or was he damaged irrevocably in some ways? 

Dondee:
I don't know what you mean by apathy here. Harry is not avoiding 
people like he did after Sirius died, nor is he spending hours on 
end laying on his bed staring into space. IMO, Harry has matured 
signifigantly and is handling his grief very well - it is his 
feelings and thoughts towards Snape that he is not handling well.


<snip> 9.  Did the funeral go as planned? Some, at least, of the 
> onlookers were genuinely shocked when Dumbledore's body combusted. 
> And another thing, did it ignite all by itself, or did somebody 
set fire to it? 

Dondee:
The way I read the account in the book, Dumbledore was not cremated -
 the flames were part of the spell to erect the tomb.

"Bright, white flames had erupted around Dumbledore's body and the 
table upon which it lay: Higher and higher they rose, obscuring the 
body."(pg. 645)

The height of the flames obscure the body and the table from view - 
they don't envelope or engulf the body.

"In its place was a white marble tomb, encasing Dumbledore's body 
and the table on which he had rested."(pg. 645)

Encasing DD's body, not ashes.


Cheers, Dondee >^,,^<