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Dumbledore does not die!!!!
> 1. Dumbledore's Big Chill
>
> Harry and Dumbledore are up on the top of the tower underneath
the
>Dark
> Mark. Harry is wearing his invisibility cloak, Dumbledore
ordered him
>to
> put
> it on before they mounted their brooms to ride to the top of the
>tower.
> Harry hears footsteps and looks around, but Dumbledore orders
him
>with a
> gesture to retreat. Harry draws his wand and backs away:
>
> The door burst open and somebody erupted through it and shouted,
> "Expelliarmus!" Harry's body became instantly rigid and
immobile, and
>he
> felt himself fall back against the tower wall, propped like an
>unsteady
> statue, unable to move or speak.(HBP pg 584/545)
>
> It's interesting to note that things are happening so fast, even
>Harry is
> momentarily confused:
>
> He could not understand how it happened -- Expelliarmus was not
>a Freezing
>
> Charm -- Then, by the light of the Mark, he saw Dumbledore's
wand
>flying
> in
>
> an arc over the edge of the ramparts and understood...
Dumbledore had
> wordlessly immobilzed Harry, and the second he had taken to
perform
>this
> spell had cost him the chance of defending himself. (HBP pg
584/545)
>
> Why did Dumbledore freeze Harry? Harry was already invisible to
their
> attackers and in no danger.
>
> The only explanation could be that Dumbledore already knew, had
>already
> planned, that he would die this night (or appear to die), and
>not only did
>
> he not want Harry to become involved and possibly be injured
himself,
>he
> needed Harry to be a witness, to be able to tell everyone else
what
> happened.
>
> Dumbledore might have also promised Snape that he would make
sure
>that
> Harry
> would not be able to interfere, knowing how Harry feels about
Snape
>and
> what
> Snape was about to have to do.
>
> The supposition that it was Dumbledore's plan to do this all
along is
> supported by the fact that he acted so quickly to do it, almost
>without
> thinking, when Draco burst in on the scene.
>
> Harry's own assumption that the Freezing Charm was done by
Dumbledore
>is
> supported by the fact the curse lifted when Dumbledore left the
tower
> minutes later.
>
> 2. Let's All Play Dead Together
>
> While Dumbledore is trying to talk Draco out of killing him,
>Dumbledore
> proposes an interesting way out for Draco:
>
> "I can help you, Draco." "No, you can't," said Malfoy, his wand
>shaking
> very
> badly indeed. "Nobody can. He told me to do it or he'd kill me.
I've
>got
> no
> choice." "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." (HBP pg 591/552)
>
> Dumbledore then offers to expand his mother in the protection,
and
>even
> Lucius when he gets out of Azkaban.
>
> This is very interesting, isn't it? Draco doesn't take him up on
it,
>but
>
> Dumbledore is saying he has ways that could make it appear that
>Draco died
>
> when he really hadn't. Doesn't that sound exactly like what we
>suspect
> that
> Dumbledore has planned for himself?
>
> IMPORTANT REVELATION!
> UK Edition Missing Important Text!
>
> The UK edition of Half-Blood Prince is missing some text that is
>included
> in
> the American edition, and it's text that is very important to
this
>clue!
>
> This is the text as it appears in the UK edition:
>
> "He told me to do it or he'll kill me. I've got not choice."
>"Come over to
>
> the right side, Draco, and we can hide you more completely than
you
>can
> possibly imagine. What is more, I can send members of the Order
to
>your
> mother tonight to hide her likewise. Your father is safe at the
>moment in
> Azkaban...when the time comes we can protect him too...come over
to
>the
> right side, Draco...you are not a killer..." Malfoy stared at
>Dumbledore.
> (HBP UK Edition pg 552)
>
> But this is the same passage from the American edition (text
missing
>from
> the UK edition highlighted):
>
> "He told me to do it or he'll kill me. I've got no choice." "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. What is
more,
>I
> can
> send members of the Order to your mother tonight to hide her
>likewise.
> Nobody would be surprised that you had died in your attempt to
kill
>me --
> forgive me, but Lord Voldemort probably expects it. Nor would
the
>Death
> Eaters be surprised that we had captured and killed your mother
-- it
>is
> what they would do themselves, after all. Your father is safe at
the
> moment
> in Azkaban...When the time comes we can protect him too. Come
over to
>the
> right side, Draco...you are not a killer..." Malfoy stared at
>Dumbledore.
> (HBP US Edition pg 591)
>
> Both of the ommissions are directly related, they are about
having
>Draco
> appeared to have died, so it would seem the ommisions are
>intentional.
>
> Did J.K. include those lines originally, and then decide she had
gone
>too
> far and made the clue too transparent and obvious? Is it
possible she
> decided to remove them, but the lines got accidentally included
in
>the
> American edition anyway?
>
> 3. Fawkes doesn't try to save Dumbledore
>
> We've seen Fawkes come in at the last moment and save Harry's
life in
> Chamber of Secrets:
>
> As Harry trembled, ready to close his eyes if it turned, he saw
what
>had
> distracted the snake. Fawkes was soaring around its head, and
>the basilisk
>
> was snapping furiously at him with fangs long and thin as sabers
>-- Fawkes
>
> dived. His long golden beak sunk out of sight and a sudden
shower of
>dark
> blood spattered the floor. (CoS pg 318/234)
>
> And he also saved Dumbledore in Order of the Phoenix:
>
> ... one more jet of green light had flown at Dumbledore from
>Voldemort's
> wand and the snake had struck -- Fawkes swooped down in front of
> Dumbledore,
> opened his beak wide, and swallowed the jet of green light
>whole. He burst
>
> into flame and fell to the floor, small, wrinkled and
>flightless. (OotP pg
>
> 814/719)
>
> We know Fawkes was nearby the tower, as he shows up after
>Dumbledore's
> "death". So, why didn't Fawkes come to save Dumbledore this
time?
>
> I think the fact that he didn't makes it possible to believe
that
> Dumbledore
> didn't want his life to be saved, and this supports the theory
>that it was
>
> Dumbledore's plan all along to "die" up on that tower that
night.
>
> 4. The Flying Avada Kedavra
>
> As soon as I read the description of exactly what happened the
>moment that
>
> Snape killed Dumbledore, little red flags were popping up in my
>brain, but
> I
> didn't pay attention to them at first. This was actually the
very
>first
> clue
> that alerted me to this whole thing.
>
> Every other time we've seen the Avada Kedavra performed, the
>victim simply
>
> falls over dead:
>
> He was screaming so loudly that he never heard the words the
thing in
>the
> chair spoke as it raised a wand. There was a flash of green
light, a
> rushing
> sound, and Frank Bryce crumbled. He was dead before he hit the
>floor. (GoF
>
> pg 15/19)
>
> From high above his head, he heard a high, cold voice say, "Kill
the
> spare."
> A swishing noise and a second voice, which screeched the words
to the
> night:
> "Avada Kedavra!" A blast of green light blazed through Harry's
>eyelids,
> and
> he heard something heavy fall to ground beside him. Cedric was
lying
> spread-eagled on the ground beside him. He was dead. (GoF pg
638/553)
>
> However, in Half-Blood Prince, when Snape curses Dumbledore with
the
>same
> spell, Dumbledore violently flies up and away from the tower:
>
> Snape raised his wand and pointed it directly at Dumbledore.
"Avada
> Kedavra!" A jet of green light shot from the end of Snape's wand
and
>hit
> Dumbledore squarely in the chest. Harry's scream of horror never
>left him;
>
> silently he was forced to watch as Dumbledore was blasted into
the
>air.
> For
> a split second, he seemed to hang suspended beneath the shining
>skull, and
>
> then he slowly fell backward, like a great rag doll, over the
>battlements
> and out of sight. (HBP pg 596/556)
>
> Why would this application of the Avada Kedavra be so different
>from every
>
> other time we've seen it?
>
> Perhaps his spell was different because even though those were
the
>words
> Snape said, he didn't perform the killing curse at all. Remember
all
>the
> importance this book gave to "nonverbal" spells? Perhaps Snape
said
>Avada
> Kedavra, but the curse he was really thinking, the nonverbal
one, was
>a
> different curse, one that only made it appear that Dumbledore
was
>dead.
>
> Even the title of the chapter this all takes place in is
suspicous,
>"The
> Lightning-Struck Tower". Even though this is the name of the
>ominous tarot
>
> card that Trelawney was worried about back on page 543/507 in
Chapter
>25,
> is
> it possible that J.K
>. is hinting here that the spell was not Avada
> Kedavra,
> just some green lightning sparks for show?
>
> 5. Don't Point That At Me Unless You Mean It
>
> In Order of the Phoenix, we learn something interesting and
>important when
>
> Harry tries to curse Bellatrix:
>
> Hatred rose in Harry such that he had never known before. He
>flung himself
>
> out from behind the fountain and bellowed "Crucio!" Bellatrix
>screamed.
> The
> spell had knocked her off her feet, but she did not writhe or
shriek
>with
> pain as Neville had -- she was already on her feet again ...
"Never
>used
> an
> Unforgivable Curse before, have you, boy?" she yelled. "You need
to
>mean
> them, Potter! You need to really want to cause pain -- to enjoy
it
>..."
> (OotP pg 810/715)
>
> If Snape was really working on Dumbledore's orders to make it
look to
>the
> world as if Snape had killed him, even if he had used the real
Avada
> Kedavra, if he had not really meant it, if he really didn't want
to
>kill
> Dumbledore, then isn't possible that the curse didn't kill
>Dumbledore, but
>
> only injured him badly?
>
> 6. Fawkes' Lament
>
> Directly after Dumbledore's murder, as everyone assembled in the
>hospital
> wing, Harry tells everyone Snape did it. He stops, overcome with
>emotion,
> and right then, something very important happens:
>
> Madame Pomfrey burst into tears. Nobody paid her any attention
except
> Ginny,
> who whispered, "Shh! Listen!" (HBP pg 614/573)
>
> Everyone was there, Ron and his parents, Hermione, Lupin, Tonks.
>Yet it is
>
> Madame Pomfrey who J.K. tells us is struck by this turn of
events.
> Continuing:
>
> Gulping, Madame Pomfrey pressed her fingers to her mouth, her
eyes
>wide.
> Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way
Harry
>had
> never heard before; a stricken lament of terrible beauty. (HBP
pg
>614/573)
>
> J.K. spends another paragraph on how the phoenix song echos
their
>grief,
> but
> while doing so mentions:
>
> Harry felt, as he had felt about the Phoenix song before, that
the
>music
> was
> inside him, not without ... How long they stood there,
listening, he
>did
> not
> know, nor why it seemed to ease their pain a little to listen...
(HBP
>pg
> 615/573)
>
> And then McGonagall enters, changes the subject, and the phoenix
song
>is
> forgotten.
>
> Many minutes later, after all the retelling of the night's
affair,
>J.K.
> mentions Fawkes is still at it:
>
> They all fell silent. Fawkes's lament was still echoing over the
dark
> grounds outside. (HBP pg 621/579)
>
> ...but Harry's thoughts move right on to other things, like
wondering
> where
> Dumbledore's body is now. Many minutes later still, as this
>meeting breaks
>
> up and Harry is following McGonagall up to what is now her
office,
>J.K.
> interjects:
>
> The corridors outside were deserted and the only sound was the
>distant
> phoenix song. (HBP pg 625/583)
>
> Whatever it was he was doing, Fawkes was working hard at it, and
not
> giving
> up. Yet we are supposed to believe, as in the title of this
chapter,
>"The
> Phoenix Lament", that it is only Dumbledore's pet echoing
everyone's
>grief?
>
> Are we so easily to forget that phoenix tears have powerful
healing
>powers?
>
> Significantly, it is the healer, Madame Pomfrey, who is brought
to
>tears
> by
> the phoenix song. She knows the healing power of the phoenix
well.
>She
> gulps
> with eyes wide. She recognizes something special is going on.
>
> Also, J.K. goes out of her way to point out the healing
qualities of
>the
> phoenix song, Harry feels it inside, the way he did last time he
was
> healed
> by one, and most importantly, it seems to ease their pain!
>
> From these passages, it certainly seems that J.K. wants us to
know
>that
> Fawkes is doing some healing! Perhaps Fawkes is not powerful
enough
>to
> bring
> someone back from the Avada Kedavra, but what if Dumbledore was
>not really
>
> hit by an Avada Kedrava, and instead hit with half a spell, or a
>spell to
> make him appear dead (as explained in the clues above)?
>
> 7. Anyone Seen Dumbledore's Wand Lately?
>
> At the very begining of the big scene between Draco, Dumbledore
>and Snape,
>
> one of the first things that happens is Dumbledore loses his
wand:
>
> The door burst open and somebody erupted through it and and
shouted,
> "Expelliarmus!" ... by the light of the Mark, he saw
Dumbledore's
>wand
> flying in an arc over the edge of the ramparts ... (HBP pg
584/545)
>
> But where is his wand now?
>
> We know a wizard's wand is very important to him, and a wand
>that belonged
>
> to a wizard as powerful as Dumbledore would be a very important
item
>to
> know
> the whereabouts of, something you wouldn't want falling into the
>wrong
> hands.
>
> This clue might not mean as much if we didn't know the customs
of
>wizards
> in
> such occasions, but we do! Five chapters ago, when Harry and
>Slughorn were
>
> consoling Hagrid over the death of Aragog, Hagrid and Sluggy
sang a
>song
> about a wizard called Odo, and Sluggy sang the lines:
>
> And Odo the hero, they bore him back home,
> To the place that he'd known as a lad,
> They laid him to rest with his hat inside out
> And his wand snapped in two, which was sad. (HBP pg 488/456)
>
> But as far as we know, they didn't snap Dumbledore's wand in
two.
>After
> the
> scene at the top of the tower, Dumbledore's wand is simply never
>mentioned
>
> again.
>
> Is it possible that Dumbledore's wand is missing because
Dumbledore
>still
> has his wand, still needs his wand, because he's not dead?
>
> 8. No Body, No Crime
>
> The last time we really saw Dumbledore's body was when Harry is
>kneeling
> over it shortly after he has been killed by Snape the previous
day.
>
> Now, we see Hagrid carry the body of Dumbledore into his
>funeral, but it's
>
> covered:
>
> Hagrid was walking slowly up the aisle between the chairs. He
was
>crying
> quite silently, his face gleaming with tears, and in his arms,
>wrapped in
> purple velvet spangled with golden stars, was what Harry knew to
be
> Dumbledore's body. (HBP pg 643/599)
>
> We never really see Dumbledore's body at the funeral. How do we
know
>it
> was
> there at all?
>
> 9. Caution: Dumbledore Is Flammable
>
> As part of the funeral service, a fire ignites around the body
of
> Dumbledore, and when it subsides, his body is encased in a white
>marble
> tomb.
>
> Again, we don't see the body, either before or after the fire.
>
> But more importantly, no one lights the fire, it just happens on
its
>own.
> A
> body bursting into flame on its own. That sound like anyone we
>know? We've
>
> seen Fawkes do that several times now in the course of the Harry
>Potter
> books, and you know what happens to Fawkes after every time it
does.
>
> Earlier in the book, we saw several instances where Dumbledore
uses
>fire,
> an
> important aspect of the symbol of a phoenix. When he first meets
Tom
> Riddle
> in the orphanage, to demonstrate he's a wizard, he sets Tom's
>wardrobe on
> fire. And he conjures fire to protect Harry and himself from the
>infiri in
>
> the cave.
>
> And after all this, in case we didn't get the allusions to a
>phoenix, J.K.
>
> reminds us just in case:
>
> White smoke spiraled into the air and made strange shapes: Harry
>thought,
> for one heart-stopping moment, that he saw a phoenix fly
>joyfully into the
>
>
> blue, but next second the fire had vanished. (HBP pg 645/601)
>
> All these clues seem to suggest that if Dumbledore really did
die, he
>has
> the ability to be reborn out of the ashes of his death, either
under
>his
> own
> power, or with the help of the healing powers of Fawkes.
>
>
>
>well only time will tell..................

2006-08-08 01:46:00 · answer #1 · answered by pri 2 · 1 0

big fan. my fave character is hermione. i dont think dumbledore is dead. now i got this idea first from the website dumbleisnotdead.com but then i started to put a theory of my own with what i had learned from the website. here is my part of the theory...

Dumbledore isnt dead but merely sleeping. like in the 4th book when ron hermione cho and fluor's lil sis was under the water. i think that the mere people are gaurding the real dumbledore under the water at the bottom of the black lake. when snape suppesedly killed dumbledore he could have been saying a different spell because if you remember in the 6th book the kids were learning how to say spells without talking. i think thats what snape did. he said the killing curse but counter acted it by saying another spell without talking. making it look as if he had killed dumbledore. yes i know about the unbreakable vow. but what if killing dumbledore wasnt malfoys full mission. malfoy could have had to kill dumbledore but maybe he was there to do something else too. and it never said that the pictures in dumbledore office was of dead headmasters it said harry presumed they were dead. the picture could just be there because at the moment dumbledore is out of the picture meaning he is unable to be in the position of headmaster. and for RAB well i havent figured that out yet but im going some how. there are clues in all the books leading up to my theory but these are just a few of them that i have found so far.

2006-08-04 05:26:00 · answer #2 · answered by daddieslilgirl4_eva 2 · 0 0

I've always loved Hagrid because he is so kind! As for Dumbledore, if this were any other writer I would say no. But because of all the things I've been reading lately about how she may just kill off Harry in the last book, I think he is really dead. This isn't lotr, and she seems paranoid about people taking her characters and writing their own books about them later on. I think either way people will still do it whether or not everyone is dead.

You want to hope that he is still alive but she is trying to make this series a little more realistic, ya know? Let kids have a glimpse of how things really work, which isn't the best idea in a book about wizards!!! But I don't want her killing off two characters!!! I hope she changes her mind! Or that they are minor characters!!!

2006-08-04 03:49:51 · answer #3 · answered by afichick 3 · 0 0

I love Harry Potter. JK Rowling did a great job of developing all of the characters, so I cannot really say which is my favorite. I am a huge Dumbledore fan and I do not believe that he is dead. It just doesn't seem right.

2006-08-04 03:47:26 · answer #4 · answered by cricket 4 · 0 0

Im a huge Harry Potter fan. My favorite character was Sirius. I felt that he was complex and that Rowling added a lot of depth to his character.

Yes, I do think that Dumbledore is really dead. I was really sad (and a little upset) that she killed him. However, I think the reason she did it was because Harry is going to have to stand alone to fight Voldemort.

I can't wait until book 7! I wish I could pre-order it now.

2006-08-04 03:49:27 · answer #5 · answered by msadvicegiver 2 · 0 0

Dumbledore is dead b/c the pheonix is gone and his picture is on the wall of the headmaster's office. I believe, however, that he will somehow come back to help Harry with all he needs to learn. Dumbledore knows more about magic and "old magic" than any other character cared to learn, and this is knowledge Harry needs in order to defeat Voldermort. This lack of knowledge has always been Voldermort's downfall.

2006-08-04 08:22:41 · answer #6 · answered by Just tryin' to help 6 · 0 0

dumbledore is definately dead but i dont think we've heard the last from him. i think he will come back in some form to help harry in the final book (such as his picture in this office, the pensive, or as a ghost or something).

snape used to be my favorite character but not after book 6! i think he will also have a big role in the 7th book

2006-08-04 03:59:30 · answer #7 · answered by Daisy® 5 · 0 0

hermione is my fave,then dumbledore.then harry.no,he's not dead,i mean all d prev. h/masters/mistress of hogwarts r in potraits,they can talk move ard in other potrairts. dumbledore so powerful can do much more. it's a ploy 2 trick snape n voldie 2 think he's really dead.also,d'dore has 2 teach harry,herm,ron loeads more 2 face voldie n find horcruxes.they can't do it on their own it all..also,load of dark arts stuff hermione n ron gotta learn.

2006-08-05 04:11:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

harry potter is a really good book, and yes i think dumbledore is truly dead. the twins are my favorite characters, although ron is close second.

2006-08-04 03:49:05 · answer #9 · answered by The Kid 2 · 0 0

No way, I think Dumbledore faked it to save Harry's life!!

2006-08-04 03:48:41 · answer #10 · answered by duane b 3 · 0 0

Yes Dumbledore is dead. . .I still can't believe it though. My favorite character Hermione. I love the way she keeps the boys in line.

2006-08-04 03:49:01 · answer #11 · answered by Tinkerbell 3 · 0 0

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