DD - maybe.

[amycrn4230]

No: HPFGUIDX 110259

Kneasy:

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> The EBD Q&A - DDs patronus is a phoenix - "very representative
> of DD" says herself. I find this interesting, particularly as I've
> hypothesised previously on just what DD is or might be.
> 
> Patronuses (patroni?) are supposed to be representitive of
> personality. Just what sort of personality is a phoenix
> representative of? 
> 
> Is DD much, much older than 150? Is he resurrected, renewed,
> reborn, revived, refurbished, renovated, restuffed and repolished
> at intervals down the centuries? I've always felt that it's 
significant
> that DD "worked on Alchemy" with old Nick according to  the
> Chocolate Frog card;  a card which is not new - it's one of the
> commonest around. He's obviously been associated with Flamel
> for years.
> 
> What are Alchemists always working on? The Stone. But Flamel 
> must have made the Stone centuries before DD was around (if he's
> only 150). So why would Flamel  need help with his Alchemy? He's 
> already done the difficult bit. 
> 
> Is DD a ringer? Is DD telling the *whole* truth? 
> Could it be that he's 150 in *this* incarnation?
> 
> So,  possibilities:-
> 1. DD is Flamel.
> 2. DD is using Flamels Stone to keep going through the centuries.
> In which case DD could be a Merlin figure - roused from sleep when
> great danger threatens.
> 3. DD is the enemy of whatever it is (Salazar?) that's animating or
> motivating Voldy. And they've fought before - often. The Potterverse
> is just the latest battleground in a war that goes waaaaay back, 
perhaps to the founding of Hogwarts or even further.


I agree with # 3, and wonder, now that you have stated the above so 
eloquently, whether or not Dumbledore has had a lot of "great 
adventures"... Didn't he say that death, to the organized mind is 
just the next great adventure.? I have always had the feeling that 
Dumbledore is just one of those entities that never leaves Harry. Not 
getting closer to death, maybe closer to a burning day...but not 
death.
Amy