Oasis for Dumbledore

One of the many joys for Cathy on her recent visit to York was learning about "Dumbledore is not dead". See her posting on Oasis for the details, and please leave a comment over there if you have any theories to add yourself.

My fellow JKR fans will know that I do not believe Dumbledore can be dead; my view is that Harry has to think that Dumbledore is dead so that Voldemort (who shares part of Harry's mind) is convinced of it. Thus in book 7, Dumbledore will be able to prepare for the final confrontation unimpeded, and also (maybe) help Harry in the quest to destroy the horocruxes. I also don't believe for a minute that Harry is going to die in book 7. I am, however, prepared to concede that the death of my favourite character (book 5) is real, as absolutely everyone else in the world tells me with great assurance that it is, though I do have a sneaking hope that the veil was not the end for him.

But enough, please read Cathy's post at Oasis.

(I am now going to have fun with these categories, having now realised the difference between categories and tags after a lesson from the deblog, and having switched on "advanced" display options --- I think my fatal error previously was to have kept my options to "basic" as I didn't realise there was an "advanced". It also looks as if "advanced" lets you split long posts into two, music to my fingers!)