[HPforGrownups] Dumbledore, wanted, dead or alive

[Kemper]

No: HPFGUIDX 156290

> Dilia wrote
> ... snip quote from the tower in HBP...
> Isn't it possible for Dumbledore to have wordlessly protected
> himself? I still believe he is alive.
>
> ... snip DD's (US version) speech to Draco ...
>
> "Hide you more completely than you can possibly imagine" Maybe he is
> referring to making Draco "die" just like Dumbledore did, so that
> people can witness it and believe that he is dead.
>
> Plus, I can't remember, at the end, there was no body, Harry only
> assumed that it was Dumbledore's body... (I'm referring at the
> funeral.)


Kemper now:
The funeral did include a body wrapped in a purple (IIRC) shroud.
Harry (and the Reader) naturally assumes the body is Dumbledore's
though Harry (and the Reader) haven't seen it.

I am a believer (with a smidgen of doubt) that DD is alive.  That
said, I also believe the body Hagrid took to the tomb is Dumbledore.

Kemper, wishing Harry a happy belated