Dumbledore's death needs a little bang in it ? (WAS- Re: Dumbledore's Death)

[aldrea279]

No: HPFGUIDX 39615

Cindy:
> When Dumbledore goes out, he has to go down *swinging* and everyone 
> has to be right there watching but unable to help. Ideally, he'll 
> save a few people on his way out, preferably Harry. Any cliche at 
> all for Dumbledore's death is fine by me. He can be diffusing a 
> bomb and can accidently cut the *red* wire, if you like. Just so 
> long as Dumbledore makes an enormous *Bang* when he dies, I'll be 
> satisfied.

I have a hard time seeing Dumbledore going down guns ablazing and 
such.  I just don't grasp how it can be set up reasonably.  
Dumbledore is very very wise, he also has a healthy distrust of 
Voldemort, plus spies and a way of knowing what people are doing.  I 
just don't see him getting killed in such a dramatic way unless 
something induces him to show up on Voldemort's front doorstep 
nancing about with a bullseye on his forehead.  And also, I like what 
Marina said about this way of Dumbeldore's death being shown to 
us: "one must consider irony. And helplessness. What would be more 
ironic than Dumbledore, one of the most powerful 
wizards of all time, being brought down by old age just when his 
power is most needed?"


Cinday again: 
> In the face of all of that, JKR is planning a death for Dumbledore 
> from natural causes? He's going to slowly deteriorate, scribbling 
> out his will whereby he carefully decides who should get his 
> Pensieve? I can't get that scene to Bang. Not even a little bit.

*sits for a moment and let's her imagination go to work* I can get 
that to bang, even if it be just a little.  Okay, Dumbledore on his 
deathbed, Harry beside him.  Harry stays with him and hears all the 
wisdom Dumbledore offers him in his last moments of life...and while 
this goes on, something happens- Voldemort strikes, in an attempt to 
get Harry and gets someone else, or some other nice Little Evil 
Thing....and somene close to Harry dies.  Someone comes to get 
Dumbledore just as he dies, and they find Harry.  Harry runs off to 
find out what's happening because he hears the name of a friend of 
his, and he get's there only just too late...  Ooh, the grief, the 
guilt...the bang! =P


Jenny: 
> I have a bad feeling that Harry will be there when not one, but    
> several of the 
> people he cares about die. However, I am not sure why that is. Do  
> we feel that Harry needs to witness these deaths because they will 
> help make him more of a man?

I should just like to point out that Harry has witnessed quite a few 
deaths, how much more of a man does he need to become if these will 
indeed help him to do so?


Jenny:
> Or do we think JKR is just going for the 
> heartstring pulling? *Or* is Harry actually witnessing these deaths 
> the only way for us to believe them? If I read in OoP that Harry 
> simply found out that Dumbledore/Hagrid/Lupin/Dobby has died, I'll 
> be suspicious because Harry didn't see it happen.

I don't know if I'd be suspicious of the death..I mean, if there's 
proof and someone is dead, done, and buried...then I'll believe that 
someone died.  Perhaps not the person Harry thinks died, but someone 
did indeed Die.  I would more than likely be extremely suspicious of 
the WAY they died, if Harry was not there to witness it.  But if 
Harry gets word that any of the above mentioned died, I'd definately 
need to see a body to believe that anyone at all died.

~Aldrea