One Dore closes another Dore opens

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 167554

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Barry" <whealthinc at ...> wrote:
>
> In the Brisbane Courier Mail, 14 April 2007, there is an interview 
with 
> Daniel Radcliffe. He quotes a conversation with JKR. 
> 
> Dan: Oh, hello, why are you here today?
> JKR: ... Dumbledore's giving me a lot of trouble.
> Dan: But isn't he dead?
> JKR: Well, yeah, but it's a lot more complex...
> 
> So DD is in a portrait but JKR can't quite decide how alive he is. 

Hickengruendler:

That's a very bold interpretation. I would argue, that it is equally 
possible, that DUmbledore is dead but somehow able to help Harry from 
the beyond. I am willing to bet a lot, that we will see a spirit-like 
Dumbledore in book 7 (and I wouldn't be surprised, if a few other 
spirits return as well, for a short time).

We 
> don't get consistency in post-life with the portraits, ghosts and 
> Peeves who appears to be a ghost but is mistakenly called a 
> poltergeist. 

Hickengruendler:

Peeves is a poltergeist. He is not a ghost. Nearly-Headless Nick 
already said so back in Philosopher's Stone, that Peeves wasn't even 
a real ghost. Rowling has also made this pretty clear on her website. 
Whatever JKR's flaws in worldbuilding may have been (and IMO, even 
though a few exist, I find them hardly bothersome so far), she was 
always very consistent regarding what Peeves is (a Poltergeist) and 
what he isn't (a ghost like Nick or Myrtle).