Frank Bryce's Death - query

[Eustace_Scrubb]

pippin_999 wrote:

> I don't think it's an error, any more than it was an error for DD to 
> say that Voldemort killed Cedric when he knows it was actually 
> Wormtail using Voldemort's wand. Nagini told Voldemort that Frank  
> was eavesdropping, and one may surmise that she devoured the body
> after it was dead. So Voldemort did use her to kill though she was
> not  the physical instrument of death. 

Now Eustace_Scrubb:
A minor quibble, this (and without the book at hand, I am relying on
an increasingly feeble memory):  At the end of GOF doesn't Dumbledore
tell Harry that he (Dumbledore) had read of Frank Bryce's murder in
the muggle papers (and also imply that no one in the Ministry paid
attention to such stuff).  Had Nagini consumed Frank's corpse, he
probably would have been on a missing persons list at best (if anyone
in Little Hangleton had bothered to notice he was missing), not
written up as a murder victim.  

Makes one wish we had a paragraph somewhere about what the locals made
of old Frank's demise...did they notice the same look of surprise and
fear on his features that had been noted on the Riddles' faces 50
years earlier?

Cheers,

Eustace_Scrubb