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‘Dumbledore is not dead’ August 12, 2005

For those of us who are grieving over the sad fate of Hogwarts headmaster Albus Wulfric Brian Dumbledore in The Half-Blood Prince, the sixth installment in JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series, let us take heart for there may still be hope.

Dumbledore is not dead. He could not be dead. Or so Dave Haber, managing editor of Wizard News, contends and in his website—aptly named Dumbledore is not Dead, he gives us his reasons for this belief.

Haber believes there is more to what happened to Dumbledore in HBP than meets the eye and lists the many clues in the book that tend to show why the Hogwarts headmaster’s death could be other than what it is.

Haber says that 1) it was questionable for Dumbledore to have cast a spell to freeze Harry at the top of the tower when he was already invisible and out of harm’s way, unless Dumbledore wanted a very credible witness to his death 2) Dumbledore told Draco Malfoy he could hide the Hogwarts student and his family so effectively that Lord Voldemort would think they were dead 3) it was surprising why the headmaster’s phoenix, named Fawkes, did not come to his rescue as he had come to Harry’s rescue in the Chamber of Secrets 4) the effect of the Avada Kedavra curse was different in Dumbledore’s case than in any other cases as it caused his body to be blasted into the air when every other time it was performed the victim simply falls over dead.

Read the rest of the clues in HBP and in other Harry Potter books that led Haber to believe that the Hogwarts headmaster could not be dead.