Harry can still contact dumbledore ?

[jmwcfo]

No: HPFGUIDX 168798


> >loopylooleanne:
> > In Dumbledore's office there are portraits of deceased ex-
headmasters
> > that often communicate with people in the office.  
> > Since Dumbledore may be dead he should become a talking portrait, 
> > but 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.  I'm sure he'll be 
> awake in HPDH.
>

JW:
First, It is inaccurate to say DD "might" be dead, if that implies he 
still might be alive.  To paraphrase JKR herself, in answering 
questions from the audience at a charity event in NYC last summer:  
DD is dead.  Get past the denial stage of grieving.  And he will not 
do a Gandalf.

However, I assume the real question is: should we expect DD to 
communicate with HP during the course of DH?  The answer for me is, 
YES.  I would be shocked if there is no communication from DD despite 
his death and lack of resurrection.  I predict there could be as many 
as three methods to accomplish this:

1. The portrait, although the amount of hard information offered by 
portraits is quite limited.

2. Via the pensieve - not as a dialogue, but as a presentation of 
bottled memories DD stored for such a purpose.

3. Time travel - DD had a very strange watch.  Many fans are 
convinced it was a time control device.  If so, then while alive he 
could have travelled forward in time to a future point that takes 
place after his death.  For example, he might show up at Bill & 
Fleur's wedding, or at GH shortly afterward.