Dumbledore death predictions

[Jen Reese]

Working through the death & immortality category, including a thead 
about how DD will die. Here were a couple of comments, very 
interesting in light of HBP:

Cindy, #39610
"So what is JKR to do with all *that*? Well, she has to *weaken* 
Dumbledore before she can credibly kill him, doesn't she? She has 
to show him becoming weary, worn down, weak. That way, when someone 
pushes Dumbledore off of a rickety catwalk into a river of lava, the 
reader will *believe it* and won't cry out, 'But wait! Dumbledore 
is too *powerful* for that to work!' 

"Yeah, Dumbledore is fading all right, but he won't fade straight to 
the grave. He's going to get a push from someone – hopefully from a 
close and trusted friend." The Captain leans forward, her nose 
inches from George's trembling lips. "Bang!" she whispers.

Eloise #39634:
I have no problem with the idea that Dumbledore, once he feels that 
he has passed on his mantle, or at least the potential to wear his 
mantle, to Harry and that he can do no more for him in terms of 
passing on his wisdom, just might act in what appears to be reckless 
way; might either deliberately sacrifice himself (whether wearing a 
target on his forehead or not ;-) ), or put himself wittingly into a 
situation which he knows he may not survive. As Cindy pointed out, 
the constant harping on Dumbledore's aging would only serve to make 
his non-survival of such an encounter more believable. Bang 
*with* pathos and irony as we (and he) know he can't survive, yet he 
forges ahead nonetheless.


Jen