HBP:First Impressions, esp about blood

[Amy Z]

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Pippin wrote:

> That trickle of blood is either the biggest Flint this side of
> Everest, or our man Snape is outed. The curse didn't work. AK 
> doesn't leave any sign. If it had stopped Dumbledore's heart then 
> he wouldn't have bled. QED

I had the same thought but I think we're both wrong.  If you have a 
fatal heart attack and immediately fall off a tower, I think blood 
will come out of your mouth or nose.  Is there a forensic physician 
in the house?

And if it's a Flint, or is supposed to signify that Dumbledore was 
alive until he hit the ground, how does that out Snape?  So Snape 
killed him by throwing him off the Astronomy Tower instead of with an 
AK.  Dead is dead and Snape killed him.

Or wait, it wasn't blood, Dumbledore didn't die either before or 
after falling, he slowed his fall (pace Prisoner of Azkaban), 
released Harry from the Freezing Charm, cut his lip with his silver 
knife, told Hagrid (who can't keep a secret to save his life) to 
carry a fake body to the pyre, and ran off to pursue Horhouse Number 
4.

. . . And I think I'm suffering from terminal wishful thinking.  
Dumbledore's dead, the phoenix Harry saw rising from his pyre is his 
soul, and we will never hear from him again except in the Pensieve, 
where I hope to heaven he left some clues about what in sam hill is 
going on.

Amy Z C

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