Dumbledore's death (was JKR's site up-date - Rumours Section)

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No: HPFGUIDX 127392


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Chys Sage Lattes" 
<yami69hikari at y...> wrote:

Tonks:
> > Well this might not be the popular idea, but I think that DD is 
> > imortal. 
snip
 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. 
snip

Chys: 
> I think it's more that the IDEA of him (The champion/helper 
whatever) 
> cannot die, and that in that respect, he's like the phoenix. That 
> could spur others onward, like how Harry had thought of DD and that 
it 
> was encouraging like the Phoenix song was uplifting.

imamommy:
I think this plays into the them that's already been introduced:  
that Harry needs to learn that (in this series, at any rate) death is 
not the end, there is an existence beyond the veil, and the ones we 
love never truly leave us.  (That's a movie quote, I know, but I like 
it.)

Whether DD will be proven physically immortal, as Tonks suggest, or 
whether he will only live on in legacy and memory, is anyone's 
guess.  I hope, for his sake, he gets to leave the confines of this 
world and go on to a better place, but that's just me.

imamommy