[the_old_crowd] Re: The AK (was: My HBP Review)

[Constance Vigilance]

Pippin comes to my defense:



I submit Dumbledore fell, but slowly, magically, until the poison
caught up with him. Oh wait, there's canon! " ..and then he fell
slowly backward, like a great rag doll, over the battlements and out
of sight."

Harry realized he could move again, it was only shock holding him --
but that realization came *after* Dumbledore's slow fall off the 
battlement. Before that, he wanted to scream, but he  couldn't -- 
the full body bind still had him at that point. It's not *like*
Harry to stand paralyzed with shock when someone needs him --
he was moving toward Sirius before Sirius had even begun to
fall.


CV: I'm wondering about some other tidbits that we know about our kindly Headmaster: 

1 - He knows other ways of becoming invisible. OK, in the past, I've argued that he's a bumblebee animagus. But what if his real talent is that

2 - He's expert in transformation. We know that he was the Transformation Master before McGonagle. She is a known animagus. What if he could transform himself into a white Phoenix!

Let's say the green potion was some kind of Draft of Death with green food coloring. He drank it and was slowly succumbing to the effects before the Snape event. He could easily have used a last drop of effort to transform himself into a winged critter to break the fall, then back to himself with some handy dragon blood for effect. We've seen dragon's blood used as a misdirection earlier in this book.

Then he comes to during the funeral and makes a dramatic transformation into a phoenix, calling Fawkes and they fly away together. We know he likes to make stylish exits.

I think it's just too convenient that his patronis is a phoenix for him not to rise from the ashes once again.

And Snape is a good guy. So there.

CV, who was not a Snapefan before this book.

Anybody who was keeping track of books-to-Sorceror's Stone charms notice that we have just had the Snape challenge? Snape and potions. In spades, right? Next is the Dumbledore (and possibly Unexpected Quirrell) challenge. Look for heart's desires being important.


		
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