Dumbledore dead?

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 151611

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sherry Gomes" <sherriola 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.
> 
> 
> Sherry:
> I do think that Dumbledore will somehow still help Harry, either as 
a
> portrait or through the pensieve or something.  But I don't believe 
that he
> will come back to life in some sort of resurrection scene.  I think 
JKR is
> going to stick to her word on that one.  The dead will not come 
back to
> life.  Unless it's a fake death, or someone has been presumed dead 
and has
> been in hiding.  Or perhaps, Sirius, because we never had a body, 
and I find
> that slightly suspicious.  But I don't let myself go down that road.
> 
> sherry
>

Hickengruendler:

For all of JKR's words, and I believe her that nobody will be 
resurrected (except Fawkes, I mean) in the closer sense of the word, 
she already wrote the Priori Incantatem scene, where the deads did 
return in some shape. Granted it was in a very special situation and 
only for a very short time, but still. She found a way around her 
rule once, and I won't be surprised if she'll do it again. In fact, I 
am willing to bet that we will see Dumbledore return in some shape in 
book 7 (and I don't mean the portrait, which is highly likely to 
appear or a Pensieve scene), and I wouldn't be all that surprised 
either, if the same is true for some of the other dead characters. 
Obviously JKR would have to find a way to explain this, but she 
managed to do this once, why shouldn't she succeed again?

Those old mentors always return after their death and Dumbledore is 
connected with the Phoenix motive, which has to mean something. And 
there was this http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/2005/0705-
time-grossman.htm interview, where she explained that "Dumbledore is 
not Jesus". This was such an odd choice of wording for me, that I at 
once started to wonder if he will indeed do something Jesus like, but 
obviously that's just my interpretation.

Hickengruendler