Dumbledore's death

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 164306

valcalkin:
> I am a first time poster myself and I have often wondered about your
> question.  It is also worthwhile to mention that since Dumbledore's
> patronus is a phoenix-hmmmmm.  It is interesting that other
> characters have shared certain abilities or aspects of their
> personalities with the image that is their patronus.  At the very
> least, the patronus has a special meaning to it's owner.  Although
> it may be wishful thinking, I believe your argument plausible.


zgirnius:
I, too, thought some such theory was plausible (though unlikely). 
However, at her appearence in New York City in August, Rowling has 
stated that he really, truly is dead, and not coming back. You can 
read a transcript here: 
http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2006/0802-radiocityreading2.html

The most relevant quote, taken from there:

> J. K. Rowling:
> But I see that I need to be a little more explicit and say that 
Dumbledore is definitely ... dead (crowd gasps). And I do know - I do 
know that there is an entire website out there that says - that's 
name is DumbledoreIsNotDead.com so umm, I'd imagine they're not 
pretty happy right now (crowd laughs). But I think I need - you need -
 all of you need to move through the five stages of grief (crowd 
laughs), and I'm just helping you get past denial. So, I can't 
remember what's next. It may be anger so I think we should stop it 
here. Thank you (crowd applauds). 


zgirnius:
Sorry...
Hope you have fun here, though!