General comments and Snape

[jmwcfo]

No: HPFGUIDX 168293

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Ronda" <goodasitgets at ...> wrote:
>
> Annemflynn wrote in
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/137425:
> > I too think DD faked his own death. 

> 
> Ronda:
> I just joined the list and was looking for other posts to confirm my
> own thoughts...YAY!!!! here it is...a post from long past...most of
> what I am also thinking anyway..sorry to those who didn't agree with
> this! J.K has soooo much she wants us to figure out on our own but 
>thankfully she leaves a fairly thick trail of clues for us too.

JW:
I agree that JKR leaves a fairly thick trail of clues for us.  Here's 
one from an event in NYC last summer.  At this charity event, JKR and 
other authors performed readings from their books, and JKR answered 
questions from the audience.  In response to a question from Salmam 
Rushdie, a member of the audience that night, JKR said:

"But I see that I need to be a little more explicit and say that 
Dumbledore is definitely ... dead (crowd gasps)"... "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."  She 
also said that "DD will NOT do a Gandalf."

You can find the entire transcript of the event at www.accio-quote.org

Now, of course you are free to interpret this any way that you need 
to.  IMHO I believe JKR is trying to oh sooo subtly tell us that DD is 
no longer alive and will not revive.  

I expect that we will hear from the dead headmaster by way of his 
portait, his pensieve thoughts, and probably time travel that he 
performed when he was alive.  Remember that peculiar watch he wore...?