[HPforGrownups] Why I don't believe DD will die until book 7

[Melete]

No: HPFGUIDX 130736


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> 
> 
> --- hettiebe <carol_sutcliffe at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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> > Looking at it from the point of view of how Harry
> > (and therefore the 
> > reader) gets to know and understands what is going
> > on, noone else seems 
> > to have Dumbledore's grasp of past and present
> > events. 

     That is definately a valid point.  It does seem
that most of the key bits of vital information do come
from Dumbledore.  Albeit most of the time the he drops
the hint with a bit of circumlocution.  It does seem
with the end of the last book (OotP) Dumbledore is
finally speaking more plainly and honestly with Harry.
 And with the covers of HBP all prominently featuring
Dumbledore, it seems as if he will take a more
proactive role in Harry's life. 

     With that being said though we do know that
pattern of JK's books since GoF have included at the
climax a character death.  Each character that has
died has been more and more significant to Harry's
life (it can be argued I'm sure otherwise).  Also as
many others have pointed out, following in many other
story traditions the mentor figure bows out so that
the hero may assume his mantle for the final battle. 
This leads us to Dumbledore dying either in the 6th or
7th book.  
Even with your argument of Dumbledore's centrality to
Harry's knowledge and training,  I still think there
is a great possibility that Dumbledore will die at the
end of book 6.  It would certainly fill the irony
quotient to have him die at the end of the book after
he finally takes an even larger or at least more
visible role in Harry's training and education.  
    If JKR takes out (shudder horrible phrasing for me
to use) Dumbledore at the end of 6, I feel it leaves
book 7 to begin with an even more tenuous and
interesting situation.  The WW would be without its
great hero and defender and realize even more what a
desperate position they are in.  Enter Harry having a
book to find inner strength and true heroism within
himself and not from one of his greatest outside
sources --Dumbledore, his great father-figure/mentor. 


       If JKR is to keep Dumbledore until just before
the climax in book 7, it puts a great deal more
pressure on that last bit of book to not only feature
character growth but also exposition. 

         Saying all that about how I interpret
Dumbledore's possible demise, we will have to see in
just a few weeks when we have HBP in our hands how it
all ends.  I know I won't be disappointed either way. 
Now I'm just succumbing to excitement again because
it's a month away and the manager at the bookstore I
work at is already assigning HP tasks.


Ellyddan

*crossing fingers that the message will not vanish
like magic ink this time!*


		
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