Trusting Dumbledore (was: Snape and Dumbledores trust)

[greatlit2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 54753

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Troels Forchhammer 
<t.forch at m...> wrote:
> 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
>

I think that the ending of PoA was not in accordance with the rules 
JKR set initially. If Buckbeak can come back from the dead, why 
shouldn't Harry's parents be able to do so? Harry was able to save 
himself, Sirius and Hermione only after he came back from the future 
and saved himself initially. Does that make sense? How did Harry 
arrive across the lake in the first place if he was about to be 
attacked by the dementors? Logically, he should not have been able 
to save himself. I wouldn't want to dismiss this situation as 
simply "magic" because a lot of other tragedies could have been 
prevented if the victims (or their friends) had an access to a Time 
Turner. If this situation had occurred consistently in the books, I 
would have dismissed it as inexplicable. But that the fact that the 
books attempt to be logical with an occasional illogical situation 
makes me disappointed...oh well. The story is great anyway :)

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