For Harry Potter fans.?

Question

I just finished two essays from the Leaky Cauldron website about questions I will pose here. Is Harry one of the Horcruxes, and is Dumbledore really dead? What are your thoughts. Here is a link to the website. http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/

Answer 1

I don't think Dumbledore is dead, in fact I don't think the Dumbledore we see die is the Dumbledore. Evidence points to it being a double or imposter, Slughorn perhaps. His speach patterns lead me to believe it isn't Dumbledore. As to Harry being a Horcrux, it is very possible. There is lots of instances in the series where Harry has an internal argument with himself, pointing into the direction that maybe he is more than meets the eye. Re-read the books and the essays on the website are interesting and informative.

Answer 2

Harry is not a horcrux, that theory has already been very well examined a proved to be impossible. I will state why in as few words as I can: First, Voldemort can't possessing Harry even for a brief moment without extreme pain to himself. Second: Horcruxes are placed in non-living things or things that don't usually have a too much power over themselves. Third: Voldemort never got the chance because the first curse he tried to use on Harry (the killing curse) rebounded and ripped him from his body; he's done a few curses on Harry since the first time but none of them were the curse necessary to create a Horcrux.
About the Dumbledore thing. I don't honestly believe that he's dead. He's too smart and clever to allow himself to be killed so easily. I'm sure him and Snape planned the whole thing out so that Snape wouldn't have to break his Un-Breakable Vow. I'm sure he'll resurface in the next book.

Answer 3

~I dont know about Harry being a horcrux but I do not believe Dumbledore is dead and heres why.

In book 5 Bellatrix Lestrange explains on page 810 that when performing an unforgivable curse "You need to mean them, Potter! Your need to really want to cause pain - to enjoy it - righteous anger wont hurt me for long."

In book 4 Mad Eye Moody explains on page 217 that "The Avada Kedavra's a curse that needs a powerful bit of magic behind it - you could all get your wands out now and point them at me and say the words, and I doubt I'd get so much as a nosebleed."

In other words In order for someone to successfully kill another wizard he has to A) be a very powerful wizard, and B) he has to trully mean it. Now theres no doubt that Snape is a very powerful wizard, but if he didnt trully mean the curse he put on Dumbledore than Dumbledore could not have died. He would have been stunned, toppled off the tower and fell to the ground. Dumbledore never said WHY he forgave Snape. Harry ASSUMED that he forgave him because he felt such remorse for Harry's parents dying, but Dumbledore never told him whether his assumption was right or wrong. my point: Snape is on Dumbledores side! He stunned Dumbledore, Dumbledore fell to the ground, witnesses saw him and testified that he was dead. Someone then took him out of site and his phoenix revived him and took him away.

Why would Dumbledore fake his own death? Because he was having too much trouble splitting his energy between running the school and tracking down and destroying the horcruxes. He realized he needed to choose between the tow, so he chose Voldemort, and he left the school in the hands of someone he knew he could trust: Proffesor McGonagall.

It is obvious that Dumbledore has put some thought into the idea of faking a death. In book 6 on page 591 he tells Draco Malfoy he can hide him and his family from Voldemort. "He cannot kill you if you are already dead. Come over to the right side, Draco, and we can hide you more completely than you can possibly imagine."

When they burried Dumbledore they never showed his body. Thats because it wasn't Dumbledore. It was someone else lost in the battle.

Answer 4

My thoughts are that Dumbledore is not dead yet, but will die in the last book. I don't think Harry's a Horcrux.

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Answer 5

Harry's not one of the Horcruxes. Voldemort made them long before Harry was born. He wanted to be immortal & divided himself into 7 parts. Dumbledore is dead as far as book 6 is written. I cried so hard when I read that part! F*&%$#@ SNAPE! I knew he was up to no good all along, the creep.

Answer 6

Not sure about the first question cuz it's been a little while since I've read the book, but I really don't know how that the Dumbledore thing could be turned around...I'm still holding on that maybe Sirius will be able to come back from the portal that no one has come back from before or that Harry can go in and get him.

Answer 7

I think Dumbledore is really dead. I think it's one of the steps of the classical way of the hero: once lost your mentor, you most grow up to defeat your archenemy and then achieve the "hero" degree.
About the Horcrux... well, I don't like the idea of Harry himself being a Horcrux, but what do I know?

Answer 8

I don't know about the Harry being a Horcrux thing, but I know that Dumbledore cannot be dead.

Answer 9

Yep, Dumbledore is really dead.

Harry is not one of the Horcruxes... the horcruxes had to be made before Harry was born.

Answer 10

I think DD is dead, though I thought the argument against was good. I think it is Harry's scar that is the horcrux, not Harry. To make a horcrux you have to kill some one and I think V planned to make the last horcrux when he killed Harry but then when it all went wrong Harry's scar became the Horcrux. When ever Voldemort touches Harry his scar hurts, because Harry's mother's protection is against who ever tries to hurt Harry so Harry's scar hurts as it is part of Voldemort, not Harry.

Answer 11

As sad as it sounds..
Dumbledore. Is. Dead.

And also, I don't believe that Harry is a Horcrux. When Voldemort tried to kill Harry, I think even Dumbledore said that he had to already have a good seven so that he wouldn't be killed by mistake.