Albus was standing when he became aware of himself once again, standing in the middle of a vast white-grey landscape with no shape, no form. That he was dead was no question. He had thought, though, that there would be a certain amount of peace.
Marine wants out of Vernon Dursley's funeral; she hadn't even liked him! Instead, she gets in the middle of a very private conversation between Petunia and Harry and learns about family, and the goodness of that 'troubled' Potter boy from next door.