[HPforGrownups] Re: Dumbledore dead?

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 151603

David here:
    In my entry 151295 and subsequent replies I presented a theory why
Dumbledore is alive and why it is important.  Harry Potter will never talk
to Dumbledore again (so in that respect Dumbledore is as good as dead to
Harry) as I believe Dumbledore, polyjuiced to look like Wormtail, will
sacrifice his life to save Harry.  Seeing Wormtail change back to the now
dead Dumbledore will give the emotional twist needed for Harry and Snape to
defeat Voldemort.  
    I agree that he can no longer, directly, help Harry and that Voldemort
must think him dead.  But all that can be acomplished and 
more without him actually being dead.   



Sherry now:
The big problem I have with this theory is the character of Wormtail.  He is
a liar and one who sold out his best friends to play with the bigger fish.
He is too afraid for his own skin to do anything that might endanger
himself.  He would not have ever agreed to such a scenario, and unless you
think Dumbledore forced him to do it, by the imperius curse or something, I
can't see how it would happen.  Peter is a spineless, gutless traitor.  And
if Dumbledore would have imperioed him into it, that doesn't make him much
of a prince either.  I do not foresee such an heroic role for old Wormtail.
I think he may do something to pay back the debt he owes Harry, but only
when he thinks his side cannot win and so he turns his coat again to try to
save his own precious neck.  Just my opinion of course, but I just don't see
Peter being that noble.

Sherry