Dumbledore Horcrux

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 137009

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "clarinut76" <clarinut76 at y...> 
wrote:
> I have to post this, so forgive me if it seems strange.  My
> husband has asked me to ask for your venerable opinions on the
> matter of DD.  He seems to think that Dumbledore created a Horcrux
> for himself and that he's therefore not really dead, or that he
> could come back.  Now, who has DD killed?  Well, it doesn't really
> say "killed" but it says on the back of his chocolate frog that 
> he "defeated" Grindevald in 1945.  In JKR's recent interview she
> said that the time of his death was important and that he is
> bigger than he seems.

Jen: No chance Dumbledore created a Horcrux. That would negate all 
his beliefs about goodness, choice, death, 'the next great 
adventure', etc. But I do think Gridelwald created one Horcrux, and 
by destroying that one, Dumbledore learned about the use of 
Horcruxes and how to defeat them. That's what led him to ban the 
information at Hogwarts, I suspect. He knows first-hand how 
dangerous that particular piece of dark magic can be. I think JKR's 
interview with Mugglenet/Leaky Cauldron supports the idea 
Grindelwald is very much involved in Book 7 because she wouldn't 
answer questions about him (except a very general one). 

DD says in the Horcrux chapter of HBP: "As far as I know--as far, I 
am sure, as Voldemort knew--no wizard had ever done more than tear 
his soul in two." (p. 500, US) People have suggested Riddle was an 
apprentice to Grindelwald in order to learn about Horcruxes. That's 
possible, there was an approximately two-year period between the 
time of the Riddle murders and Grindelwald's defeat. Or Riddle just 
learned about Horcruxes in the same way Grindelwald may have--
through the underground network or literature in Knockturn Alley. 
There must be a "Make your own Horcrux" book somewhere! But you 
would probably have to be incredibly powerful to actually pull it 
off. 

Rachel: 
> I'm more interested 
> in his connection to phoenixes.  Will he arise from the flames?
>  We did see a flash of fire before he disappeared under his tomb.

Jen: I loved the idea JKR left us with during the funeral scene, 
that a magically powerful and uncommonly good wizard reincarnated as 
a phoenix. At least that's how I read the ending, when Harry thought 
for a moment he saw a Phoenix fly 'joyfully' from the flames 
surrounding the tomb. JKR left it ambiguous, but that was my hope 
for Dumbledore. Joy, freedom, 'the next great adventure'.

Jen, still a little sniffly at the thought.