The next two. . .

[Alon van Dam]

No: HPFGUIDX 66385

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "amanda brock" 
<amanda.brock at n...> wrote:
>  "mslitz" <mslitz6 at c...> wrote:
> > > What do you think will happen?
> > > 
> > > I have a feeling that Dumbledore will die at the end of book 7.
> > > 
> 
> Arcum;
> 
> > I see Dumbledore possibly dying in book 6, and then having his
> > portrait on the new headmasters wall, next to all the other 
> portraits
> > we saw in OoP, actually. This would allow for him to effectively 
be
> > removed from the story, while still being able to give advice, 
and 
> the
> > portraits of all the headmasters just seemed like a bit of suble
> > foreshadowing to me...
> > 
> 
> 
> I am afraid that I agree with the first one and that book 7 will be 
> the one that Dumbledore dies in after all he is the only one 
> voldemort fears.
> 
> JKR won't let anyone sie in book 6 will she? 
> 
> Wasn't it book 6 that was going to be shorter than 4 and 5 and 
didn't 
> she also say that book 7 would be the longest. I can't wait to see!
> 
> Amanda

I throw in my support with those who say he'll die in Book 6: Harry 
needs to do the end by himself. As long as Dumbledore is around, 
Harry really has nothing much to fear. He's like Gandalf in LotR, 
Aslan in Narnia, Lord Asriel(-ish) in HDM, Moiraine in WoT, etc. If 
he won't die in Book 6, he'll either die early on in Book 7 or be 
incapacitated (or distracted) for the final encounter and denouement. 
Harry has to stand on his own and do the 'fight' by himself. Maybe a 
bit like the end of PS/SS: Ron and Hermione may come a very long way 
and be enormously intstrumental to the end going well, but the end is 
Harry's and Harry's alone, methinks. 

Alon, who doesn't subscribe to the theory of a LotR-ending.