Dumbledore can be alive, if you squint just right

[david_krasnansky]

No: HPFGUIDX 151520

> >ET: My personal wild and crazy theory about this is that the 
> >potion DD drank in the cave was the Draught of Living Death.  
> >I don't think he swapped places with anyone.  The potion put 
> >him a in a coma-like state that is so close to death it evoked
> >the portrait. Snape's "murder" of him was a feint designed to 
> >deceive LV. <snip>
> 
> Rachel here:
> But Snape clearly stated "Avada Kedavra" and pointed his wand
> directly at DD.  Harry saw DD get thrown out of the window by
> the curse. Perhaps if we did not actually see the scene I would 
> have more doubts about DD's being dead, but IMO Snape killed him.  
> Not to mention that's quite a fall, even for someone in a coma, 
> to survive.

David:
  Another reason to think Wormtail is polyjuiced to look like
Dumbledore is by what doesn't happen in book 6 (see beginning of the
thread).  In book 5 Harry on more than one occassion, after looking at
Dumbledore, gets an urge to bite, to strike.  In book 6 that never
happens. With all the time HP spends with Dumbledore one would think
that the urge to bite would have occured at least once.  That leads me
to believe it isn't Dumbledore.

  An explanation for Dumbledore in the portrait could simply be one of
the other headmasters taking a polyjuice to look like Dumbledore.

  The idea that has been expressed elsewhere that Snape and Dumbledore
have switched places doesn't hold for me because of the scene where
Snape reveals he is the Half-blood Prince when Harry tries to use
Snape's own spell against him.  This reaction is so quick and personal
 I beleive it could only come from Snape himself.