Merlin-DD (wasRe: Cheating

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> 
> Ceridwen: 
> The nagging problem for me in a Patronus being sent is, Dumbledore is 
> shut up in a tomb.  If he's sending a Patronus, and he's alive in 
> there, it stirs all the ancient fears of being buried alive.  Of 
> course, with Dumbledore, there will always be some out, some secret 
> passage or some way for him to not be stuck in there with life 
> draining away (can one Apparate from inside a sealed tomb?).
> 

Potioncat:
The main reason I think DD is dead, dead as we know it, is that I don't 
think JKR would kill someone in one book and have all the kiddies and 
adults wait years before finding out he's alive. If she was going to do 
that, I think she would have completed it in one book. Of course, Black 
didn't think DD would hire anyone who had ever worked for LV. So, who 
knows.

I read the chapter titles before starting the book. Boy, was that 
misleading! As soon as I saw a chapter about a cave, I knew DD was 
going just like Merlin...only the cave didn't exactly work out that way.

The most recent Merlin story I've read was by Mary Stewart. In her 
version Merlin is put in the cave, but is not really dead. He does come 
back to advise Arthur, but keeps an otherwise low profile. I haven't 
had the time to see if the older versions include Merlin's return or 
not. All the strange things around the funeral seem to point that way.

But I wouldn't hold my breath.