Dumbledore is not dead

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 165833

"teranyoli" <yoliteran at ...> wrote:
>
> Dumbledore is not dead. He is an animagus, a phoenix. There is hit in
> page 645 of HBP Harry thought, for one heart-stopping moment, that he
> saw a phoenix fly joyfully into the blue,....
> 

colebiancardi:

alas, JKR has stated that Dumbledore is dead:  
"Author JK Rowling explicitly clarified tonight on her final
appearance at Radio City Music Hall in New York City that Dumbledore
is "definitely" dead."  
http://www.hpana.com/news.19531.html 

I can only assume as we have only met one phoenix in the HP series,
that phoenix was Fawkes.

colebiancardi(who wonders why Fawkes was not around during the scene
in the Tower....)