What I don't want to see in the next HP book

[pegkerr]

I've seen several discussions on LJ about how Dumbledore isn't really dead, how he and Snape faked his death between them, how the phoenix arising from Dumbledore's pyre indicates that he'll come back somehow. And I gotta say this:

horsepucky.

I sure hope Rowling doesn't try anything like that.

What I have appreciated about her work is that she doesn't sugarcoat hard truths. Sometimes life is unfair. You have to choose between what is right and what is easy. It is your choices that make you. Parents die. Children need to be protected, but sometimes they are not.

I loved Dumbledore, but I do not want to see him back. I am much more interested in seeing how Harry stands on his own two feet without him. I would be surprised to see Rowling lose her nerve at this point.

Don't do it, Jo.

Comments

[carol-j.livejournal.com]

I do wonder if perhaps the member of the Order of the Phoenix that we've not met properly though might not be Fawkes himself

My guess is that this member is Aberforth, Dumbledore's brother.