Dumbledore's Horcrux

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 137059

Rachel wrote:
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. <snip>
It doesn't strike me as very DD-ish to fear death so much to create 
something that would keep him from really dying. I'm more interested 
in his connection to phoenixes. Will he arise from the flames? 

 

Lynda says:

I really don't think that DD would have made a horcrux for himself.  He refered to death in SS/PS as a great adventure and I also think that horcrux making is a working of very dark magic, which DD although he was definately talented enough to achieve, was not inclined to perform.  It seems to me that much of the reason Tom Riddle turned to the dark arts was out of a fear of his own mortality and that DD has indicated throughout the books that death is not to be feared.  As for the phoenix connection, it is interesting isn't it, what happened at his funeral.  I just started rereading two days ago myself and haven't gotten very far into the book yet.  RL keeps intruding.

 

Lynda