If Dumbledore dies......

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> > flyingmonkeypurple: 
> > If Dumbledore dies then Lv can do what ever he wants to do. 
> > Harry has no chance without Dumbledore alive.  If Dumbledore
> > gone who is going to run the order to stop LV.

> JLV: 
> Harry can - he already has his own version of the Order - the 
> DA - and I'm sure that, now he's older, Harry will be capable 
> of going it alone. He has many of Voldemort's own special 
> powers and he is capable of becoming a very powerful wizard. 

Princess Sara:
I have to agree with JLV here. Dumbledore may be the only wizard 
LV is afraid of but if I remember correctly, this is only said 
before Harry re-enters the WW. Just because he's out of the way, doesn't mean Harry's as good as dead.

> > flyingmonkeypurple: They might as well all kiss their 
> > safety goodbye.

> JLV: 
> It will be dangerous, yes, (and exciting for us readers) but 
> I'm sure Harry will pull through. He has to if the Good is to 
> win over the Evil.

Princess Sara: 
Although I really wouldn't be surprised if Dumbledore gives up 
the ghost in HBP, I think it would present some logistical 
problems with regards to the safety of Hogwarts. Dumbledore, as headmaster, would reasonably have some knowledge of the spells 
needed to maintain the anti-apperation wardsand other various protections of the school. Also, the assumption most people in 
canon make (and I will admit to that being an assumption) is that Hogwarts is safe because of the "only one he ever feared" thing. These two factors leave me with the impression that Hogwarts 
would be breached very quickly after DD's death or incapacitation. 

Assuming whatever deaths there are in HBP come at the end (as has been the pattern thus far), this would mean that LV's attack on Hogwarts would happen at the beginning of the seventh book. This would inevitably lead to the showdown between Harry and LV... JKR 
has followed a pretty predicatble set up with her boarding school framing narrative and I highly doubt she'd break from it. That's 
why I find the idea of DD's death in book six problematic. Now, 
in book 7, I'm all for seeing him "buy the farm"! ;o)

> JLV: 
> And anyway, if Dumbledore does bite the big one, who says he 
> has to be murdered by Voldemort? Why can't he pass away of 
> old age - it must happen to some wizards and he is very old. 
> The narrative occasionally notes that Harry has noticed how 
> very old Dumbledore looks. I'm sure Dumbledore would prefer 
> to pass peacefully than be blown up... at least *I* would.

Princess Sara:
Wouldn't it just be delightfully anti-climactic if DD just died 
in his sleep. I don't think that'll happen but it would be a 
great twist if it did!