The Gleam Revisited

[bugaloo37]

No: HPFGUIDX 45104

I was thumbing through book 1 last night- and just happened to read 
through the conversation Dumbledore had with Harry at the end of the 
book.  IMO, Dumbledore's conversations with Harry are always 
significant in some way.  In this particular conversation, Dumbledore 
mentions this idea: (excuse my paraphasing) in order to die you have 
to be human-and Voldemort no longer qualified as such.  At some 
point, Hagrid makes virtually the same comment to Harry ( I cannot 
recall which book-sorry).  IMO, I believe Dumbledore's gleam is a 
result of his realization that Voldemort has regained his human form-
which now makes him vulnerable in a way he has not been for some 
time.  This may be a too simplistic view to take-but sometimes you 
can overanalyze- a fault of which I am terribly guilty- obviously, or 
I would not be involved with HPFGU.  Please do not get me wrong-I 
very much enjoy the analyzing of literature (I took novels classes in 
college-just for fun).  I am just saying that sometimes a duck is 
just a duck-of course, it is up to each reader to decide when this is 
the case.

bugaloo37-who is not in anyway trying to stop a discussion, just 
putting in her thoughts on the matter.