Interesting email I received.... - Theory about Dumbledore not being dead

[zandi1717]

No: HPFGUIDX 153953

I received this email this morning...

I AM NOT the author of this theory - but, feel compelled to post
it.  I would love to see what the minds of this list think of this
one..

Again - this is NOT my theory...  (email edited for spelling
mistakes and those pesky exclamation points that seemed to pop up!)


As Clear as Water
An original editorial by Erez R.

The introduction of new potions has been a motif throughout the
Harry Potter series. In Chamber of Secrets, we were first introduced
to the Polyjuice Potion, and following it came the Wolfsbane Potion
and Veritaserum. Following tradition, with the release of Harry
Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, we were introduced to a wide
variety of new potions: the love-inducing Amortentia, lucky Felix
Felicis, and finally an ominous-looking, glowing, emerald green
potion. Yet, unlike the rest of the potions, the latter's identity
remains shrouded in mystery.
Although there is no clear information about the mysterious potion
in the cave, we learn the following about it after reading the book:
This potion's surface had a phosphorescent green glow. This potion
had something hidden beneath it, and any physical contact with it
was forbidden. This potion weakened Dumbledore after he'd been
forced to drink it.

I deduced that this potion's purpose was to simply weaken the foe
who would try to get the Horcrux. I thought that Voldemort placed
the potion there as another obstacle to the intruder, a means to
fiddle with his mind, so he could not steal the Horcrux. It was only
recently that I understood how right I was -- and how terribly
wrong.

The green potion in the basin did have a green glow. The locket
Horcrux was hidden beneath it, and an invisible, inflexible barrier
prevented Harry and Dumbledore from touching it. Dumbledore was
forced to drink it in order to get the Horcrux, and it weakened him,
making him hallucinate and see things which made him want to stop
drinking.

But was that the green potion's real purpose? To only weaken
Dumbledore, rendering him unable to take the Horcrux? Or was there
more to it? What did it make him want, ultimately?

"Water, " croaked Dumbledore."
- HBP, British edition, pg. 536
Dumbledore asks for water. After he pleads with Harry to make it
stop, after he pleads with Harry to kill him, Dumbledore asks for
water. Why?
A desperate Harry quickly obeys and fills the crystal goblet with
water from his own wand. Alas, as the filled goblet approaches
Dumbledore's mouth, the water in it persistently vanishes.
Obviously, this is another defense mechanism of Voldemort's that
forces the person who drinks the green potion to then drink water
from the lake and wake up the Inferi.

Again, is that all there is to it? Or maybe there is more to it than
meets the eye? Is the awakening of the Inferi another diversion
created to cover something else up? Remember what Dumbledore said in
the cave:

"...[Voldemort] would not want immediately to kill the person who
reached this island, " Dumbledore corrected himself. "He would want
to keep them alive long enough to find out how they managed to
penetrate so far through his defences..."
- pg. 532
So, if Dumbledore was right, and Voldemort did not want the
trespasser immediately to die, then what purpose would drinking
water specifically from the lake serve?
Clues that may answer this question are hidden in Chapter 26.
Several lines in this chapter describe a strange behavior of the
water in the lake:

Harry looked back at the water. The surface of the lake was once
more shining black glass: the ripples had vanished unnaturally fast."
- pg. 525
Harry gasped as the ghostly prow of a tiny boat broke the surface,
glowing as green as the chain, and floated, with barely a ripple,
towards the place on the bank where Harry and Dumbledore stood.
- pg. 526

These descriptions are highly suspicious, and clearly imply that
something about this water is abnormal, unnatural. But what is it?
Before we ponder over this suspicious combination of facts, let us
go back to an earlier part of the book, to the first lesson with
Professor Slughorn. In this lesson, we learn about the Felix Felicis
potion, which plays a big role later in the book. Slughorn then
announces a competition, in which the students will do their best to
try and concoct a mixture of asphodel and wormwood. The winner will
receive a vial containing twelve hours of liquid luck.

Now you must ask yourselves, what does this have to do with the
water in the cave? Your guess would have been as good as mine, had I
not noticed a tiny, negligible piece of information given while
Harry made the mixture of asphodel and wormwood. A tiny, almost
invisible, piece of information which made all the difference:

His annoyance with the previous owner vanishing on the spot, Harry
now squinted at the next line of instructions. According to the
book, he had to stir counter-clockwise until the potion turned clear
as water.
- pp. 180-181
Clear as water. Why was the behavior! of the water in the cave
unnatural? Because it was not water, it was a potion, clear as
water, a mixture of asphodel and wormwood. And what is a mixture of
asphodel and wormwood, you ask? Well, Severus Snape has done us a
favor and sneeringly provided this piece of information in the first
book:

"For your information, Potter, asphodel and wormwood make a sleeping
potion so powerful it is known as the Draught of Living Death."
-PS, British edition, pg. 103
The mysterious potion in the basin, then, was nothing other than a
concoction to make its drinker crave water. But its properties
parallel the real culprit in the cave: It was untouchable and hid
something beneath its surface.
The "water" in the lake certainly hid something: Inferi, the living
dead. Touching it was also forbidden, lest the intruder awaken the
Inferi.

Dumbledore was forced to drink "water" from the lake, inasmuch as
the green potion fulfilled its real purpose and aroused Dumbledore's
need to drink, thus forcing him to drink from the lake as there was
no other source of water available. This potion weakened Dumbledore,
made him drowsy, and slowly exhausted him until, if what Snape said
was true, he would fall into a deep long sleep.

All these facts seem to lead to one conclusion, and they all make
sense. Furthermore, what makes my belief in this theory even
stronger is that J.K. herself put clues that relate Dumbledore to
sleeping and carefully chooses words that imply sleeping in the
events that follow Dumbledore's and Harry's departure from the cave:

Dumbledore closed his eyes again and nodded, as though he was about
to fall asleep.
- HBP, British edition, pg. 550
"Think your little jokes'll help you on your death bed, then?"
- pg. 553

Dumbledore's eyes were closed; but for the strange angle of his arms
and legs, he might have been sleeping.
- pg. 568

In its place was a white marble tomb, encasing Dumbledore's body
and! the table on which he had rested.
- (Editor's note: The author omitted the British edition page
number, but the line can be found in Chapter 30, "The White Tomb.")

This also answers the question of how Voldemort will keep his victim
alive long enough to find out how he got through the obstacles.
After drinking the green potion, in an attempt to steal the Horcrux,
the intruder would feel a dire need to drink water, and after
drinking from the lake -- not water, but the Draught of Living
Death -- he would fall into a long sleep until Voldemort found him.
Concerning Dumbledore's death, this theory may foreshadow what will
happen to Hogwarts' devoted headmaster, if he's not dead. I would
not say that this theory alone proves Dumbledore did not die, as I
have no explanation as to how he would have survived Snape's Avada
Kedavra. However, from an author's perspective, hiding such an
important piece of information so brilliantly and meticulously, just
to kill Dumbledore later and have it all worth nothing, seems
absolutely redundant. There is a possibility that Dumbledore is
indeed dead, but the possibility that Dumbledore is in his tomb,
sleeping an eternal sleep after unknowingly drinking the Draught of
Living Death, without anyone we know of knowing about it, seems
plausible to me all the same.

In conclusion, I think that we all can be assured that the potion
that ultimately weakened Dumbledore in the cave was not the green
potion but the Draught of Living Death, which was so cunningly and
cleverly disguised as water by the literary genius, J.K. Rowling.
How this important piece of information will be woven into the plot,
we shall only find out once the seventh book hits shelves.

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The one thing that this guy left out was an explanation for the
Avada Kedavra curse. The below information is of my, Chris C.'s
(General Chris' ), reasoning.

Explanation as to how Dumbledore could have survived Snape's Avada
Kedavra:
I do remember in the 5th book that Bellatrix says that to use an
unforgivable curse you must not only cast it correctly but truly
mean it. Notice that all the other times Avada Kedavra was cast, the
victim fell to the ground, Dumbldore flew back. I think Snape didn't
really mean the spell and silently cast another spell instead under
his Avada Kedavra. Why else focus so strongly on the fact they were
learning to use silent spells? Plus notice all the references to
flame? A pheonix is a magical creature who is reborn through flames
and dumbledores casket burst into flame.
Aslo - Dumbledore could be an unregistered animagus. It is possible.
And seeing as the phoenix is a recurring thign for him, it would
make sense that his form as an animagus is a phoenix.
Plus Fawkes has been there when Dumbledore was in danger every time.
Even at the ministry when he swooped in front of a green flash from
Voldy's wand (Avada Kedavra) and swallowed it falling to the floor
featherless and wrinkled. We already know that a phoenix reacts to
Avada Kedavra the same way as death. It dies and bursts into flame
and is reborn. so if Dumbledore was in mortal danger wouldnt he have
shown up on that tower??
Look at all the references to Dumbledore sleeping after his "death".
He fell back after he was hit as though falling into a deep sleep.
His portrait appears and he is sleeping in the portrait. His body is
carried to his tomb wrapped up. You never see his body!!
And lastly for the moment, Dobby makes a comment in the HBP (May not
fit in but still a little suspicious) when Harry asks him and
Kreacher to tail Draco. He says, "And if Dobby does it wrong, Dobby
will throw himself from the topmost tower, Harry Potter!" (HBP, 422,
American version).  This may or may not be connected but still
something to think about.
**The Unforgivable Vow:
""Will you, Severus, watch over my son, Draco, as he attempts to
fullfill the Dark Lord's wishes?"
"I will.""And will you, to the best of your ability, protect him
from, harm?"
"I will."
"And should it prove necessary...if it seems Draco will
fail..." "will you carry out the deed that the Dark Lord has ordered
Draco to perform?"
"I will."  (HP & HBP, 36-37)

Snape casting the spell on Dumbledore fullfills the first two-thirds
of this vow. Watching over him and protecting him. HOWEVER...The
last part of the vow has yet to happen. Just because Snape cast a
spell on Dumbledore doesnt mean he killed him.*See above evidence.*
Draco Malfoy still has the opportunity to kill Dumbledore later on
in the seventh book.
Someone had made the comment that Albus didn't have his wand so he
couldnt have slowed himself down like he did with Harry after he
fell on his broom during the Quidditch match in book 3. However,
after reading/watching that part. Albus Dumbledore doesnt use his
wand to do it. So therefore it is plausible that he could do it for
himself when falling off the tower. At least enough to slow down the
fall to not get hurt and still fake his death. OR DD was the
Transfiguration Professor at Hogwarts when he taught, could he have
transfigured himself into something?

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