Dumbledore dead?

[lurgyblitz20]

No: HPFGUIDX 151663

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Najwa" <noon_at_night at ...> 
wrote:
>
> 
> > Ley:
> >  
> > I truly believe (although it breaks my heart to admit it) that 
DD is 
> > in fact, dead.  Harry is quoted to saying a few times that 
he 'knew' 
> > DD was gone forever.
> > 1. Fawkes leaving the castle.
> > 2. The portrait on the wall behind the headmaster's desk.
> > 3. The spell keeping Harry frozen at the top of the tower.
> > 4. The white tomb enclosing him.
> > 5. The headmaster's office allowing Professor McGonagall to 
enter it 
> > as 'headmaster'.
> >  
> Najwa:
> There is also the scene in Chamber of Secrets where Dumbledore says
> "As long as there are those who remain loyal to me I will never 
truly
> leave Hogwarts." Or something to that nature, but then again we 
have
> the Hogwarts issue, because it looks like Harry will not return to
> Hogwarts. I do not think he's alive, because not only do all the 
signs
> point to Dumbledore truly being dead, but also because he has his 
own
> link to the living through his portrait and probably other methods,
> and also it would be almost be cheap of him to hide out and leave 
the
> Wizarding World in such a dire state to a group of teenagers, 
Chosen
> One or not.
> 
> -Najwa
>

Lurbyblitz:

I agree with you. It would be quite dumb for DD to just up and leave 
teens to deal with everything themselves. But, what if he had his 
reasons to pretend to be dead? Why shouldn't he pretend to be dead 
so that Draco doesn't have to kill him, and so that he'll have time 
to look for the Horcruxes freely without fear of being attacked by 
death eaters or whatever? I'm rambling, but what do you guys think?