Dumbledore MAY be alive....

[xuxunette]

No: HPFGUIDX 149967

Greetings everyone, this is my first post :)

I wanted to reply to this thread because the theory of Dumbledore
being alive surprises me. 

Nikkalmati: snip
> DD's body burst into flames in exactly the same way as his phoenix. 
> Harry even sees a phoenix rising from the smoke.  Is this supposed 
> to mean nothing?  Is it a red herring?  What other explanation is 
> there than that DD was reborn?  Of course if you think about Fawkes 
> he returned as a baby bird, so DD may not be able to return to help 
> Harry.  He may alive as an infant somewhere.

Dumbledore's figure is one of experience and wisdom, and a role model
of goodness for Harry. Even if he was reborn as an infant, what good
could he could be to the story?


> The second clue is the portrait.  Why doesn't it behave like the 
> other portraits, especially after the funeral? The fact that DD 
> appears to be sleeping indicates IMO that he is not dead in the 
> same way as the figures in the other portraits. 

It's more convincingly a way to indicate that DD is truly dead, that
his active role in the story has ended. By making the portrait
passive, JKR shows efficiently that there is truly no help to be
expected from Dumbledore anymore, even from his magical representation.


Bart:
> The major reason I think that  Dumbledore is
> dead is that JKR is too good a writer to have him be secretly
> alive.

I agree with that. But more importantly, I think DD is truly dead 
because if it was not the case, it would be like dream come true for
Harry; making the story a fairy tale, in which wrongness and injustice
can't happen for real. And I don't think that it's the aim of the HP
books.

As I understand it, the HP books are about a kid growing up in the
most cruel of world. It is for this kid to become someone when life
just doesn't stop hurtling shit his way. We were shown what Voldemort
did to respond to life's injustices. The books really are about what
Harry is going to do whilst he has been wronged as badly. And that's
why DD must be dead.

Dumbledore's death makes you want to be angry and to cry. It is
terribly wrong and sad, and it's the reason it has to be. Ultimately,
DD's death, like Sirius', serve one essential purpose: to hurt Harry.


xuxu :)