Dumbledore/more death

[Charmian]

No: HPFGUIDX 7989

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "naama " <naama_gat at h...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Firebolt <particle at u...> wrote:
<snip>
> 
> Why, oh, why does everyone here think that Dumbledore is a gonner? 
> The argument that Harry "needs" Dumbledore to die so he can mature 
> and so on is very unconvincing, IMO.  For one thing, Harry has 
> already realized that Dumbledore isn't omnipotent - when he 
couldn't 
> save Sirius; and that he's not omniscient - when he admitted that 
he 
> never knew about MWPP the whole time. You don't have to kill the 
> father in order to let the son become a man. A much better way is 
to 
> have the son become a man through accepting his father's 
fallibility.
> In the Lord of the Rings, where Gandalf plays a very similar role 
> Dumbledore does in HP, he does not die at the end. He stays alive 
to 
> orchestrate the downfall of Mordor and save Frodo and Sam (and the 
> others). I don't present this as proof, of course, but just to show 
> that Dumbledore dying is not structurally necessary . 


You're right that we can't really use literary "formulae" to 
determine who's going to kick the bucket, but there are other reasons 
for thinking Dumbledore might die, namely the constant "impending 
mortality" passages, where Harry notices how tired and old Dumbledore 
seems, etc. One tends to think that JKR is preparing us for his 
demise with such passages. 

Picking up other related threads...
Hmmm. So, JKR has stated that she will kill off a major character 
whom we will all be very sad to see go. Gosh, it's so good to belong 
to a mailing list that gives you interview info so you don't have to 
search for it yourself! That doesn't sound good for much of the cast, 
though, except the non-cuddly characters. 

Charmian