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[heidi]

1. So Book Six can be translated to Harry Potter & Severus Snape, then?
Huh.
2. If what Harry wishes/expects at the end of Book 6 comes to pass, then book seven is "post hogwarts" and it'll turn out I was right in saying that I didn't ship any of the trio with anyone else of the trio at Hogwarts. Again, huh.

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[ginsu.livejournal.com]

Harry hit that point; the point where he finally realises he is never going to be safe and no amount of blankets on the bed or locks on the door is going to stop anything.

He does seem to have realized that, but he's wrong (as usual -- see also his interpretation that Snape hated Dumbledore at the moment he killed him).

That Dumbledore is coming back from the dead, and that indeed his "death" is a totally orchestrated ploy designed to help keep Harry safe, is about as clear to me as the Ron/Hermione relationship always has been.

I'll even tell you what I think inspired the idea in JKR's head, despite the ultra cheese factor, and how it will play out, if you like.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Well, I think we can't ignore the fact that Dumbledore orchestrated his death carefully and for a reason, but I'm dubious about him coming back from the dead. Dumbledore himself would be horrified at the idea of being resurrected.

Now, of course it's always possible that the AK was a fake, that he fell onto Buckbeak waiting below, and that the body is a spell-created fake, but....somehow I doubt it. JKR has a way of hammering home the finality of such things which makes one think she was thinking the fans would try such mental loopholes, and she's trying to smash them.

[ginsu.livejournal.com]

Dumbledore himself would be horrified at the idea of being resurrected.

Not at all; he's endorsed resurrection aggressively for many years.

But there's no sense arguing this point, given that JKR will definitely address it one way or the other in the next book.

makes one think she was thinking the fans would try such mental loopholes, and she's trying to smash them.

My experience with the fans is that they are wonderfully capable of ignoring even the biggest loopholes.

The fourth book's entire plot, for instance, requires Crouch to be borderline retarded, and never realize he can simply ask Harry to touch a portkey the first day of school. The fans barely scratched that problem.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's one reason I keep refusing to re-read GoF. It's like a bad animated movie from the sixties...

I'm intrigued though -- I can't recall Dumbledore even discussing resurrection, let alone endorsing it, but then as I've said, I'm not a great one for re-reading the books. How do you come by that theory? Other than Fawkes, of course, but for Fawkes resurrection is natural -- for humans it is not.