Dumbledore's Death

[knorte1]

No: HPFGUIDX 140552

I've just joined this group and still have many e-mails to go before 
catching up on all the theories and discussions spawned by HBP but 
I'm wondering why everyone seems so completely convinced that DD is 
really "dead."  First of all, Snape would have had to truly want to 
kill DD for the AK to work.  I'm not convinced that he did.  I'm 
sure DD knows a great deal more about Snape than JKR has told us 
through her books and I have a hard time believing he could be so 
blind as to keep as a trusted ally, someone who would be able to 
perform a successful AK on him.  Also, after using the AK, all we 
are told is that DD's body is raised upwards and then it falls 
behind the battlement.  We don't see DD again until some time 
later.  Why couldn't it have been possible for someone else to have 
helped DD, unseen by Harry and the DE, and given him a little of 
the "living death" potion so that everyone would believe he was 
dead.  That would allow Harry to proceed on his hero's quest and 
allow DD to stay safely hidden in the background gathering more 
information and keeping an eye on things.  His portrait didn't 
speak, it snored.  That's certainly ambiguous.  Snape didn't allow 
anyone to harm Harry, and even continued to instruct him to keep his 
mouth shut when casting spells so that they couldn't be deflected.  
Finally, Harry saw the Phoenix rise up from the funeral pyre.  I see 
a strong parrallel here to Gandalf in Lord of the Rings.  I think 
there's a very good chance that we'll see DD, or an altered version 
of him at least, in Book 7.  By the way, I agree with anyone who 
found this to be the least exciting of JKR's series thus far.  I was 
quite disappointed but I want to know how the story turns out so, of 
course, will be there with the crowds to purchase the last volume.


Knorte1