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.

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I also agree that he needs to stay dead (as I also believed Sirius needed to stay dead). I don't think he'd be a portrait if he weren't really dead, and I do not subscribe to the Dumbledore-as-a-phoenix theory at all. The phoenix might come back, but I think Dumbledore's participation is/should be the portrait, and in a limited function, at that. Harry needs to do this on his own.