[HPforGrownups] Re: Trusting Dumbledore (was: Snape and Dumbledores trust)

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No: HPFGUIDX 54735

At 08:49 03-04-03 +0000, finwitch wrote:

>Speaking of that, Dumbledore told Harry that there is no spell
>to undo death, but he has *never* said that death cannot be
>undone. We might find that there _is_ a way AD knows of, but
>it isn't a spell!

Dumbledore may not have said so, but Rowling has!

 From the radio interview with WBUR 'The Connection' (about
45 minutes 26 seconds into the program):
Lydon: Peter, what is your guess about Lily - the real story
      about Harry's mother?
Peter: Er - I don't really know, but I'm guessing that maybe she
      is gonna come back alive, maybe in the seventh book or
      something like that ...
JKR: Well, it would be nice, but - I'll tell you something - you
      - you've raised a really interesting point there, Peter,
      because when I started writing the books, the first thing I
      had to decide was not what /can/ do, but what it /can't/ do.
      I had to set limits on it - immediately, and decide what the
      parameters are ... and one of the most important I - I
      decided was that _magic__cannot__bring__dead__people__back
      to life; that' - that's one of the most profound things, the
      - the natural law of - of - of death applies to wizards as
      it applies to Muggles and there is no returning once you're
      properly dead, you know, they might be able to save very
      close-to-death people better than we can, by magic - that
      they - that they have certain knowledge we don't, but once
      you're dead, you're dead.
      So - erm - yeah, I'm afraid there will be no coming back
      fro- for Harry's parents

The program home page
<http://archives.theconnection.org/archive/1999/10/1012b.shtml>

Direct Real Audio stream;
<http://realserver.bu.edu:8080/ramgen/w/b/wbur/connection/audio/1999/10/con1021b.rm> 


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