The Truth..Slughorn and Dumbledore: Death, act 1

[vmonte]

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Auria:
I like your theories as they kind of agree with what I have been
thinking that Dumbledore is not really dead. I like your idea that
the 'poison' which Dumbledore drank from the cave actually helped him
fight off the AK curse - that maybe R.A.B actually switched the
original poison with a protective potion.
I have also been wondering the significance of Slughorn's ability to
metamorphasize into an armchair at the beginning of the book. This
may mean that Slughorn could have changed and posed as someone else -
perhaps Dumbledore's body? What do you think?

vmonte:
Yes, I was thinking about the arm chair incident too. I wonder if 
Slughorn is another metamorph? He is also a very theatrical kind of 
man. Just look at how he put together his own "fake" death.  I'm 
thinking more on the lines that Slughorn approached Dumbledore and 
proposed the idea that he should have back up plan in case...hint 
hint nudge nudge.

If anything was set-up it was between DD and Slug.

JKR has already alluded to the fact that DD made a gave error 
regarding something/someone...maybe, just maybe she is talking about 
Snape. (Snape's redemption may come in the final act.) 

If DD's death is a fake it looks more like a Slughorn-type theatrical 
extravaganza...