HBP: Spoiler: the 4

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--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:
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> Pippin:
 
> Of all the deaths we've heard of, that is the one most likely to have 
> been faked--with the large exception of the old man himself...


Brian:
I don't disagree that these murders *could* have been faked - I'm just
relying on what is says in the book.  As you point out below, just
about anything *could* happen....especially where DD is concerned.

> Hmm, don't  suppose he had a bezoar in his pocket, and maybe a 
> phial of phoenix tears and a little going away present from old 
> Nicholas F as well, do you?

Brian:
Maybe all those things - maybe not too.

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> Swig it all  on the way down, recover instantly,
> transform into a flying insect animagus, land softly, accio the
>wand, transfigure a handy rock into the corpse du jour, complete with
>the "I AIN'TNT DEAD" trickle of blood which Harry not so helpfully
>wiped away, and stick around to watch the show. Most entertaining.

Brian:
Definitely entertaining (and ain't that what Herself does
oh-so-well?), and certainly plausible (heck, in this universe, what
*isn't* plausible) - but there's no evidence as yet to say anything
other than what canon says: Bones and Vance have been murdered,
Fortescu and Olivander are MIA (through unspecified means) and
Dumbledore is dead, having been AK'ed by Snape.  Simple as that.  I
know that I'm being very literal here - even obstinately so (mostly
because I'm not clever enough to be otherwise) -  but canon says what
it says, and until it says something else, I'm obligated to believe
what it currently says. 

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> Needs an acronym. How about SAD DENIAL II --Supposing Albus
> Dumbledore, Dire Events Negated, Is Actually Living, Is Irresistible.
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> Pippin

Brian:
I do love your acronyms, Pippin.  How do you do that?!?!?