Dumbledore's Death

[alora67]

No: HPFGUIDX 140572

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "knorte1" <knorte1 at y...> wrote:
> 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."  

*de-lurking*

I've been dealing with this one myself.  DD death hit me hard, I 
wasn't prepared for it, so I don't want to believe it.  

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.  

OKay, I've thought about this one, too.  What about all the 
potion/liquid he drank to get that locket at the bottom of the 
bowl?  What WAS that?  Did it hurt him?  Protect him?  Was it 
the "draught of living death"?  I wonder....

>I think 
> there's a very good chance that we'll see DD, or an altered 
version 
> of him at least, in Book 7.  

I know DD's probably dead, but I'm going to keep the hope alive that 
something was in that potion in the cave.  

Alora ;)