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

[king-tirian.livejournal.com]

It seems pivotal to me that Dumbledore's counterproposal to Draco was killing the entire Malfoy family. It is completely aggrivating that Draco didn't think to challenge this ludicrous suggestion and get some more information for us. But it is at least clear that death is not the end in at least some instances and certainly not Dumbledore's (_because_ Snape killed him instead of one of the other Death Eaters).

If I had to guess, I'd say that the secret actions of everyone we've seen die will be the solution to half of the mysteries in Book 7. I'm girding myself for the probability that Sirius will return. But more than Dumbledore, I'm afraid that James and Lily will come back.