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

[genealogygirl.livejournal.com]

Peg, I couldn't agree more! I think it's critical to the storyline and to the underlying messages that Dumbledore remain "properly dead." She has said categorically that magic can't bring back the dead, and I was glad she didn't do this with Sirius (and can't imagine Dumbledore being anymore apt to become a ghost than Sirius was -- not the man for whom death is just the next great adventure). No, I think he's dead.

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.

Then again, my theories are more apt to be wrong than not!

This is Penny, btw (I chose a moniker for LJ-land that reveals none of my real name ----- a first for me!).

[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.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

So glad that you have finally joined LJ, Penny! *adds you as friend*