[HPforGrownups] Why I'm not convinced DD is dead (long)

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 148352

Angie
I know others have offered their opinion on whether DD is dead.  
Since I'm iced in this weekend and can't go anywhere, I thought I'd 
offer mine (while the electricity in on!).  I hope I'm not merely 
repeating what others have said previously.

I will admit that I don't want DD to be dead. I'm tired of Harry 
losing people, period. I won't say for certain I believe DD's alive, 
but I'm not fully convinced that he's dead, for the following reasons:

Sherry now:
Excellent post, Angie.  i don't agree with it, but you did a masterful job
of putting together all the arguments that have come here since HBP.

i agree with you that I'm tired of Harry losing people.  But if anyone comes
back from the dead, i hope it's Sirius.  Sirius is the person Harry's
parents appointed to be his guardian, his father's best friend.  i think his
return would be more meaningful in the long run for Harry, because he is a
connection to his parents, because he's young enough to be in Harry's life
for a good long time.  i also find Sirius' death more ambiguous than
Dumbledore's.  After all, we never saw any body of Sirius after he fell
through the veil.  Though I have worked hard to convince myself that when
JKR says dead means dead, that really means those who die will not come
back, a small part of my heart hopes for Sirius to return and be the
guardian and godfather Harry wants.  Ok, not a guardian anymore legally, but
that person who can be his parental figure.  Dumbledore, if alive, is too
powerful and important in a way.  He can't be the family, the parent Harry
would like to have.

Another thing for me is that I think Dumbledore coming back would be too
cheesy and actually predictable.  Too many people half believe it, and so
there would be no bang associated with it at all.  It would be like, ok,
yeah, Gandalf came back, so of course Dumbledore would come back.  I loved
Dumbledore as a character, except in OOTP, and I hated him dying.  I so
wanted all the predictions to be wrong.  but now that he is dead, I would
actually be disappointed if he's the one to make the big resurrection scene,
just as has been done in so many fantasies before.  I expect JKR to do
something to shock me again in the last book.

Sherry