My thoughts on some things.......

[Adzuroth]

No: HPFGUIDX 148328

Hey there!  This is my first post on here and I've been itching to 
find out if any of you have some answers to some questions of mine as 
well as opinions to a few of my theories.  Let's start off with the 
Half-Blood Prince:

After reading Dumbledore's death scene a few times I couldn't help 
but think that Dumbledore (DD) might have tried faked
his death.  Why else would he have deliberately immobilized
Harry so he couldn't interfere?  I say deliberately because
Harry couldn't have been between DD and the tower door when
DD fired that jinx. If he was then Draco would've bumped 
into him when he walked out onto the tower's rooftop.
Although there's no canon for this, it wouldn't be too
far-fetched to make an illusion of a spell like the
killing curse, or perhaps casting a different spell
with the same visual characteristics as Avada Kedavra
(which sounds suspiciously like Abracadabra........anyone
know why?).

In all previous castings of that killing curse, the victim
simply crumbled to the ground, dead as a doorknob, and that
was the end of it.  However, for some unknown reason DD got
blasted into the air and over the tower wall when he was hit
with the "curse".  That sounds more like a jinx of some kind
than an unforgivable curse. As to how DD managed to survive 
the fall without his wand is up to pure speculation, but how
did his half-moon specticles manage to cling to his face when 
he hit the ground?  Perhaps he had two wands(I know that's 
never been proven, but as far as I know no wizard is limited
to only one wand in his lifetime.) and used his other 
wand to slow his fall.  Perhaps Fawkes was flying around at
night and happened to grab DD's wand in his beak then handed
it to him when he fell. In any event, there are too many 
anomalies here to say conclusively that DD is dead. 
On the other hand, who's to say that DD is not an unregis-
tered phoenix animagus?  Perhaps Harry wasn't imagining 
things after all when he "thought" he saw a phoenix fly
joyfully into the sky, leaving a white tomb encasting DD's
remains?  In any case the reason DD wanted the world to 
think he was dead is obvious: it would draw Lord Voldy
out into the open where Harry could finish him off once
and for all (after finding all the Horcruxes of course.
One other thing of note is that after DD's "death" Snape
could've easily killed Harry anytime he wanted to, but chose
not to.  Anyone think they know why?

On a side note, I was wondering a little something about book four.  
What would have happened if Harry simply refused to compete in the 
Triwizard Tournament?  Granted, he was in a magical contract of 
sorts, but since when are minors allowed to enter legally binding 
contracts?  If the legal system is different in the magical world, 
and there is no age limit, then what would keep unscrupulous adults 
from getting children to sign all their future earnings over to 
them?  Here's another angle for you: Harry could've simply done 
something to get himself disqualified, and he would be out of the 
contract, simple as that.

Oh yeah, one other little detail.  In the first triwizard challenge, 
why didn't Harry simply say "accio dragon egg" instead of "accio 
firebolt"?  Any of the champions could've done it since there was no 
mention of any spells preventing that.  If the dragon was holding 
onto the egg, all one had to do was distract it long enough for the 
dragon to take its claws off the egg, then nail it with the accio 
spell.

On the fifth book, I have one little question.  If Umbridge had the 
first, last, and only word on discipline at Hogwarts, why didn't she 
simply expel Harry?

On that note, what happens to a budding young wizard who's 
unfortunate enough to get expelled from Hogwarts? Can they try 
their luck at another school like Durmstrang or Bouxbaton? 
If their wand gets snapped in half, so what? Hagrid had no
problems performing spells in books one and six (putting 
the pig tail on Dudley and putting out the housefire, 
respectively).

That's all for now............hope to hear from you all soon!

Adzuroth