Harry can still contact dumbledore ?

[Michelle Wilkinson]

No: HPFGUIDX 168793

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<loopylooleanne at ...> wrote:
>
> In Dumbledore's office there are portraits of deceased ex-headmasters
> that often communicate with people in the office.  They often leave
> their portraits in the office to visit their other portraits (for
> example Sirius' relative that was once a headmaster visited his other
> portrait see if he was still there when he heard that Sirius was
> dead, to make sure Dumbledore and Harry were telling the truth).
> Since Dumbledore may be dead he should become a talking portrait, but
> as he had a unnatural death (Avada Kedavra curse) does this mean he
> cannot communicate with people?  But at the end of HPHPB he has a
> portrait in his former office.  As Dumbledore has spoken to the
> portraits and they have spoken back, does that mean he can speak to
> Harry??


Michelle:
I see no reason why Dumbledore can't communicate via his Headmaster portrait.  It would be pointless to have his portrait in the office if he won't be able to communicate thru it.  Maybe the reason he is "sleeping" in his frame is he has not been laid to rest yet?  I don't recall them going back to the headmaster's office for the rest of the book after Harry leaves before the Minister of Magic arrives.  I'm sure he'll be awake in HPDH.