Dumbledore is not dead

[Goddlefrood]

No: HPFGUIDX 165842

> Teranyoli wrote:

> Dumbledore is not dead. He is an animagus, a phoenix. <SNIP>

Goddlefrood:

Sorry, but Dumbledore is dead. JKR told us this, although you could 
try and argue she was referring to Aberforth or some other Dumbledore.

It's the second point I want to expand on, just a little. Two things 
I have found curious, and which I submit for your edification. The 
first is Hermione checked the Animagus register to inform us there 
were only seven registered Animagi in the last century without 
mentioning who any of the other six (apart from McConagall) were.

The second is that there was an arbitrary wasp flying around the 
examination room during the course of Harry taking his OWLs. This 
latter made me think that Dumbledore's Animagus form was a wasp and 
that he was keeping an eye on the OWLs. Dumbledore is, after all, bee 
in Olde English (small aside - in The Mayor of Casterbridge there is 
a reference to a dumbledore and also one of the characters is said to 
be hagrid, which is the only other place I have come across these two 
words). 

Bee/wasp are often confused and JKR, I propose, was having her little 
joke by making Dumbledore a wasp in his Animagus form.

Goddlefrood with little better to do just now, but recall this early 
thought (which I posted once on Chamber of Secrets, to my shame) ;-)