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...with the witch burning thing...there was at least a body after all those witch burnings, but with Dumbledore, there wasn't... And with Fawkes, I think we would have seen a more definite shape...
...Dumbledore was too weak to really do anything at that time because of the potion... [/b]
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1) The book said that Dumbledore's body and the table were encased in the tomb. It did not vanish.
2) Maybe I haven’t quoted this one enough -- HP-5, page 622 "Fawkes...swooped low over him. Dumbledore...grasped the phoenix's long golden tail. There was a flash of fire and the pair of them had gone."
3) Dumbledore may have been weak on the night of the “murder,” but the funeral was days later.
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Well, I read that interview through at least three times, and found nothing useful.
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http://www.mugglenet.com/jkrinterview.shtml)
You won't. She is not going to give you any more than she already has in the books.
She will (and does):
A) Clarify things that the book already said, but some people didn't get.
Like Harry's choice concerning the prophesy. Dumbledore already
explained it, but JKR felt the need to do it again.
B) Give background information that might be interesting, but contains no clues.
“I'm never going to answer everything that an obsessive fan would want
to know in the novels, and the Web site is another way of doing that.”
C) Draw people back when they wander too far from reality.
Like, are Mrs. Longbottom's gum wrappers significant?
Well, yes, to Neville. But no, she is not passing secret messages.
“...that's a classic example of, 'Lets just shut that one down,' because
it doesn't really lead any where very interesting...”
She does not (has not, will not) answer any of the big spoiler questions.
Re: Is Snape Evil?
“What do YOU think?”
“I can't answer that question because it's a spoiler...”
Re: Was Dumbledore planning to die?
“...there are lines of speculation I don't want to shut down.”
“...it's when people devote hours of their time to proving that Snape is
a vampire that I feel it's time to step in, because there's really nothing
in the canon that supports that.”
Re: Was someone else was present in Godrick's Hollow that night?
Even her “no comment” is useless. She is not telling us anything.
JKR is not going to give us any more than she already has.
If anything, she might be tempted to confuse us.
She’s having too much fun.
“Wishful thinkers?” “Delusional?” She’s just playing with you. Read the books again if you want more clues.
ALSO, IF SHE DID NOT ENJOY “MESSING WITH DEATH,”
SHE WOULD HAVE “SHUT IT DOWN” BY NOW.
It's all there, in the books. We just need to put it all together.
I still say that:
Harry, Hermione, Ron and Ginny will not die;
R.A.B. is Regulus Black and he is completely dead;
Riddle's trophy is the mystery horcrux;
Snape is a good-guy;
and Dumbledore is alive.
His actual death would serve no purpose.
All that matters is if Voldemort BELIEVES that he is dead.
And, since Harry can’t keep a secret to save his life, Dumbledore can’t tell him. Yet.
The only thing I got out of that interview was the bit about her editors.
The first people she talks to after she finishes a book are Emma,
the UK editor, and Arthur, the American editor They both see the new
manuscript at the same time. They collaborate, bla, bla, bla, and
“...we have arguments as well.” Maybe that's how that line got lost,
“He can't kill you if you're already dead.” They just got their wires crossed.
They've probably realized the error by now, but to make a big deal about the correction would be telling us too much – It would draw more attention to that line than she meant to. Better to leave it alone.
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