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

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No: HPFGUIDX 137135


> Auria,  replying to Brandon:
> 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?


>vivian:
> 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.

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

hg:
I've been thinking the same thing.  The idea that Dumbledore's death 
was faked hasn't been warmly received on any board, so I've been "in 
the closet" on this one.  But I've been collecting evidence and re-
reading carefully; I've got a lot of indicators that it happened, but 
without being able to secure a motive, I've been reluctant to post.

I don't think that the portrait means that Dumbledore is necessarily 
dead.  I don't buy the AK.  The funeral had too many bells and 
whistles.  And I do think Slughorn himself appeared in the office 
afterward.  If Dumbledore's death was faked, nobody died on that 
Tower, in my opinion.  (Except DE Gibbon.)

I have pages of ideas, quotes, inconsistencies.  Vivian, you seem 
interested; anyone else?
hg.