The Truth about the 6th Harry Potter Book

[brandon]

No: HPFGUIDX 137076

J.K. Rowling's sixth Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Half-
Blood Prince, is a book filled with mystery and many possibilities. 
Locked away in mystery, under a veil of smoke, J.K. Rowling has left 
many questions in her new book, such as who is R.A.B? Why did 
Professor Snape kill Dumbledore? And who will find the other 
Horcruxes first, R.A.B, Harry Potter, or does the Dark Lord have 
them are ready with him? These are some of the questions that might 
have been running through Harry's mind, as he "Pulled out the 
fragment of parchment, opened it, and read by the light of many 
wands that had now been lit behind him" these words, "to the Dark 
Lord I know I will be dead long before you read this but I want you 
to know that it was I who discovered your secret. I have stolen the 
real Horcux and intend to destroy it as soon as I can. I face death 
on the hope that when you meet your match, you will be mortal once 
more", signed R.A.B (609pg). As one can clearly see, the 
possibilities are endless; however, based a pun my reading of the 6 
Harry Potter books, I feel that Dumbledore is still alive and he 
will find the other Horcruxes. 

Some, who may oppose my claim, might argue that since Professor 
Snape used the Avada Kedavra, the killing spell, on Dumbledore that 
Dumbledore must be dead. Also, some might say that because 
Dumbledore's body was found, he is surely dead. Still others may 
argue that if Dumbledore was not dead, then Professor Snape would 
have die, because of the unbreakable vow, Snape made with Narissa, 
Draco's mother. However, I will prove that that thinking is not 
correct. 

First off, I believe that Professor Snape was only pretending to 
kill Dumbledore. On page 34 Snape says to Narcissa and Bellatrix, 
Narcissa's sister and a follower of the Dark Lord, "He intends me to 
do it in the end, I think. But he is determined that Draco should 
try first." Then later on, on page 36 when Professor Snape is making 
the unbreakable vow with Narcissa, she asks him, "Will you, Severus, 
watch over my son, Draco, as he attempts to fulfill the Dark Lord's 
wishes?" He replies, "I will." She also asks him, "
 should it prove 
necessary
if it seems Draco will fail
 will you carry out the deed 
that the Dark Lord has ordered Draco to perform?" And he replies "I 
will."  If Snape were to break the unbreakable vow with Narcissa, 
then he would die, but in the book he did not die so he did not 
break it. So, how then can Dumbledore be alive? Well simply put, 
Draco's deed that the Dark Lord orders was for Draco to try and kill 
Dumbledore, which he did, 3 times. Therefore Professor Snape did not 
have to kill Dumbledore. Once Harry and Dumbledore made it to the 
castles, Dumbledore kept telling Harry to go get Snape, "it has to 
be Snape." And when Professor Snape made it to, a-seemly-nearly-dead 
Dumbledore, lying on the ground, Dumbledore said to Snape pleasure. 
I think he did so, so that Harry could see Snape pretending to kill 
him.       

Furthermore, according to Hagrid, Professor Snape and Dumbledore 
were fighting in the Forbidden Forrest.  According to Hagrid, 
Professor Snape said that he did not want to do "it" anymore, then 
Dumbledore say remember your promise. I think that Dumbledore wants 
the Dark Lord to think he is dead, so he can look for the other 
horcruxes (the keys to killing the Dark lord). With all of this, it 
looks like to me that Dumbledore was telling Snape to act like 
Professor Snape killed him. But I think Professor Snape did not want 
too. He knew he would have to give up teaching DADA (Defense Against 
the Dark Arts, a class at Hogwarts), seeing as how he could not stay 
at Hogwarts, if everyone thinks that he killed their headmaster, 
Dumbledore.   

Professor Snape really loves teaching DADA and does not want to give 
it up.  In a conversation with Bellatrix and Narcissa, on page 27, 
Snape said unto them, talking about DADA, "He wouldn't give me the 
Defense against the Dark Arts job, you know. Seemed to think it 
might, ah, bring about a relapse
 tempt me into my old ways."  Upon 
that Bellatrix replies, "This was your sacrifice for the Dark Lord, 
not to teach your favorite subject?" This seem to hint on that 
Professor Snape compares his "not being able to teach DADA" to 
Bellatrix, "who spent many years in Azkaban for him," him being the 
Dark lord (pg27). Also, Professor Snape was good at teaching DADA. 
Hermione even says to Harry , " I thought he sounded a bit like you

When you were telling us what it's like to face Voldemort, you said 
it wasn't just memorizing a bunch of spells, you said it was just 
you , and your brains, and guts- well, wasn't that what Professor 
Snape was saying? That it really comes down to being brave and Quick-
thinking?" ( 181pg). Hermione is clearly comparing Harry's teaching 
style, the one from book 5 Harry Potter and the Order of the 
Phoenix , to Professor Snape's teaching style ,and everyone Harry 
teaches, loves his teaching style. All of this goes to show that 
Professor Snape really likes teaching DADA and does not want to give 
it up for nothing.

However, there is this question that has to be answered. What about 
Dumbledore's dead body? Well, lets start with this, Dumbledore knew 
that Draco "had been trying to kill him all year" (pg585). Also, in 
the cave on page 570 Dumbledore had to drink that potion in order to 
get to the Horcruxe, but R.A.B had all ready betting him to the 
Horcruxe. So R.A.B would have had to drink that potion too, which 
means that there should be no more potion for Dumbledore to drink. 
Professor Snape, the potions master at Hogwarts, said in book one, 
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, to his potions class "I can 
teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death" 
(pgg137). All of this means that the potion, Dumbledore drunk, was 
to help him stopper death.  Plus, Dumbledore would have never 
allowed Harry to go on a mission that was that dangerous, one can 
tell that from the other 5 books. So it seem that Dumbledore fooled 
Harry into thinking he was hurt when in truth the potion more then 
likely helped Dumbledore fight off the Avada Kedavra spell that 
Professor Snape hit him with. Also, on page 596, after Dumbledore is 
blasts into the air "like a great rag doll, over the battlement and 
out of sight", he more then likely got up and cast a spell to make a 
fake dead body, that looks like him, appear. Furthermore, Dumbledore 
is R.A.B. On page 502 Dumbledore said that he and Harry were closer 
to the secret of finishing Lord Voldemort than anyone else. Plus, 
only Harry, Dumbledore, Lord Voldemort, and Professor Slughorn know 
of the conversation that Lord Voldemort and Professor Slughorn had 
about Horcruxes, and it could not have been Harry or Lord Voldemort, 
but it could have been Dumbledore or Professor Slughorn who has the 
Horcruxe, but more then likely it was Dumbledore. I believe that 
Dumbledore wrote that letter Harry found and signed it R.A.B, 
knowing that Harry was going to be the one who reads it. He was 
betting on Harry thinking someone else, has found the other 
Horcruxes, so Harry would not tried to go find them. This means that 
Dumbledore can look for the other Horcruxes, under a new name, 
without people getting in his way.

So in short, Dumbledore is still alive and is acting under a false 
name in order to find the other Horcruxes. Professor Snape did 
forefeel his unbreakable vow to Narissa by the watching over of 
Draco, and Draco did try to kill Dumbledore 3 times. Also, Professor 
Snape really loved teaching DADA, and was good at it, and did not 
want to relinquish it to go back to a life on evil and darkness. 
Dumbledore had to beg Professor Snape to pretending to kill him. The 
potion Dumbledore drunk was to help him fight of the Avada Kedavra 
spell that Professor Snape used against him. The Dumbledore body 
that was found was a fake. Nothing is ever what is seems to be in 
Harry Potter, and in this case of Dumbledore dieing is no exception. 


Brandon.