Why the Celebration in DH?

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 187310

 
> zanooda:
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> More like four days: "'The Trace'll break on the thirty-first', said Harry. 'That means I only need to stay here four days'". The Lexicon also says that Mad-Eye was killed on July 27th... ;-(.


Potioncat:
I didn't believe it. Seemed to me it was weeks. But the Lexicon says 4 days and I found the canon source. Harry was picked up four days before his birthday, according to chapter 2.

So having a wedding 4 days after Moody's death seems---unfeeling. Yet, the wedding was being planned all along. Just a few days before the wedding most of the wedding party risked their lives to get Harry. Anyone could have died in that raid. So they must have given some thought to "what if" and decided to go on with the ceremony regardless of outcome.

And I'm sure that's what Moody would have wanted.