[HPforGrownups] Re: Something that caught my eye

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 159277

 
In a message dated 10/9/2006 12:31:46 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
foodiedb at optonline.net writes:

What  you say is true, however, as many have pointed out, she said 
Dumbledore is  dead, she didn't, however, say that Albus was dead. 
Could it have been  Albus' brother or another relative


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If y'all are done splittin' them rabbits, mind puttin' 'em on the fire to  
roast?  :-)
 
The question to which JKR responded with this comment dealt with ALBUS  
Dumbledore.  Additionally, by convention when "Dumbledore" is used alone in  canon, 
it refers to ALBUS Dumbledore (check the books - "Dumbledore" always  means 
Albus, not Aberforth or anyone else).  When she included this  statement in her 
response to Mr. Rushdie, she was saying that the person she  refers to on a 
regular basis by the single name "Dumbledore" is, indeed,  dead.  And that 
would be Albus.
 
Sherrie
(who figures it's like someone saying "Boone" - they don't mean Becky or  
Mima, they mean Dan'l)


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