Dumbledore dead?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 151610

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Wendy Dupuy <winkadup at ...> wrote:

winkadup:
>   If dead is dead how could Harry's parents come out of LV's wand to help Harry in GOF? 
How is some wizard's killed come back as ghosts, like Moaning Myrtle?
>   Just wondering.


Geoff:
A little canon to help:

'"One of the wands will force the other to regurgitate the spells it has performed -  in 
reverse. the most recent first... and then those which preceeded it...."

He looked interrogatively at Harry and Harry nodded.

"Which means," said Dumbledore slowly, his eyes upon Harry's face, "that some form of 
Cedric must have re-appeared."

Harry nodded again.

"Diggory came back to life?" said Sirius sharply.

"No spell can reawaken the dead," said Dumbledore heavily. "All that would have happened 
is a kind of reverse echo. A shadow of the living Cedric would have emerged from the 
wand... am I correct, Harry?"

:He spoke to me," Harry said. He was suddenly shaking again. "The... the ghost Cedric, or 
whatever he was, spoke."

"An echo," said Dumbledore, "which retained Cedric's appearance and character..."'

(GOF "The Parting of the Ways" pp.605-606 UK edition)

Hope that helps.