Portraits and a Pensieve / Re: Dumbledore lodged in Harry's pocket

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 151470

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kim" <spirittalks at ...> wrote:
> 
> Kim:
> The portrait will be fun, yes.  But see, in this little secret 
pocket in my mind, the reason DD is asleep in the portrait is 
because he's in a coma while his Phoenix sings and cries on him and 
heals him.  So the portrait could disappear at any moment and DD 
will wake up.
> 

Tonks:

I have thought that this might be a possible event in book 7 too. 
Except that DD is really dead. He is not in a coma.  When Fawkes was 
singing over DD's body I wondered about what that meant.  Remember 
we have been set up by the author just a few chapters earlier to see 
healing happen with a song by Snape.  Draco would probably have died 
if Snape had not been there. And we know that Phoenix tears can heal 
a person near death.  Can Phoenix song bring the dead back to life?  

Tonks_op