[HPforGrownups] Re: Dumbledore's death (was JKR's site up-date - Rumours Section)

[Vivamus]

No: HPFGUIDX 127349

> > elady25:
> > 
> > Lots of folks think DD could die before the series is over, but I 
> > haven't seen a lot of theories on how.
> > 
> 
> Tonks:
> Well this might not be the popular idea, but I think that DD 
> is imortal. I know everyone, or most everyone, else thinks 
> that he is just a man, but I think that he is more than that. 
> I think that is the reason why his patronis is a phoenix and 
> that Faulks is around. 
> I think that he is like the phoenix. So if I think that out, 
> I guess it means he dies at some point, but never really. He 
> always comes back. So in that way DD can never die. After all 
> in SS/PS he says that he will never be gone from Hogwarts as 
> long as someone there needs him, or was it believes in him. 
> Anyway I think that means that he can not die. When the final 
> book is written, I will slink off in a corner somewhere if it 
> turns out that I am wrong.

Vivamus:

Oooh!  Brain-flash!

How about this for a concept:  DD embodies the spirit of Godric Gryffindor,
and LV embodies the spirit of Salazar Slytherin.  When the two "best ever"
friends were divided and the rift between their houses followed, something
happened that caused them to not be able to find their rest, but wrestle
with each other through the centuries.  

If the houses are ever reconciled to each other and the friendship of GG and
SS restored, both spirits will be able to go on and be at rest, no longer
imbuing their avatars with power.

DD represents (or even is) the current avatar of GG, and LV of SS.  Harry,
however, is somehow the recipient of BOTH spirits, through his parents in
some way that has been hinted at but never yet revealed, and through LV in
the curse that failed.  

That would be why the serpent was "in essence divided" when DD queried it --
the spirit of SS was in both Harry and LV.  (That part comes from, I think,
Mooseming.)  Ironic that we have assumed it to mean the spirit of LV which
was split between his new body and Harry's, but it works just as well when
you think of it this way.

The spirit of GG, embodied not in Harry but in DD, represents the
uncompleted desires of GG.  We don't yet know the connection between DD, GG,
and Harry, but there have been MANY hints of it, from the beginning of the
series.  

If the spirit of GG is in fact resident in DD (and partly in Harry), and the
spirit of SS resides in LV (and partly in Harry), then we have a very nice
symmetry, with a perfect problem to be resolved.  Unfortunately, if that is
the case, I don't see any way it can be resolved without the death of DD, if
LV is vanquished.  If that's the case, then the resolution won't happen
unless both spirits go away.   

We could see DD and LV both die in the last book, finally achieving balance
and resolution between GG and SS.  As a result, the powers that were in DD
and LV go away, with most of Harry's powers going away as well.  Harry's
scar might go away at the same time.  (The scar disappearing at the end was
suggested in one of the groups at least five years ago, I think, but I don't
remember by whom.)

Perhaps a bit far-fetched, but perfectly possible, don't you think?

Vivamus