[HPforGrownups] Re: Dumbledore's Death

[OctobersChild48 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 150952

In a message dated 4/12/06 10:47:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
celizwh at intergate.com writes:


> If Dumbledore *is* still alive at the beginning of book 7, I think we
> will see his real death by the end of the book, but it will be a death
> that Harry, the WW, and we the readers can accept as suitable for the
> greatest wizard of his time.  



In my ineloquent, bumbling way I would like to respond to this. I consider 
the statement "and we the readers can accept" to be profound. I can accept the 
fact that Dumbledore is dead, and have never had any doubt that he is. What I 
cannot accept is the way he died. I feel that Jo really let us down with this 
one. I have to be honest and say that I never really gave much thought to the 
possibility that DD would die. I expected him to be right beside Harry for the 
final confrontation with Voldemort. I don't usually read this genre of book, 
so I was unaware that the mentor is supposed to die so the hero can go it 
alone. I did give some thought to the fact that DD could die, going out in a blaze 
of glory during the final confrontation, as would befit the greatest wizard of 
his time. But to be murdered while weak and feeble, by someone he trusted, 
just doesn't cut it. Whether he was killed by ESE!Snape, or DDM!Snape, he was 
murdered nonetheless. I, personally, feel cheated. Dumbledore's funeral did him 
justice, but his death did not. And the pleading, no matter what he was 
pleading for, just made it worse. I'm sure there are those who are going to jump in 
and say that he died nobly for the cause, which I won't argue, but I still 
think Jo could have done better for the greatest wizard of his time.

Sandy


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