Harry Potter Spoilers

[logisticslad]

I've just finished and quite enjoyed Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and have some spoiling thoughts...

1) Dumbledore is not dead. He and Snape are masters of mind magic and could very well have communicated a plan prior to cursing him. Also his body is blasted out of sight so we don't actually see him die. Perhaps Snape mentally cast another spell while speaking the death curse incantation. Finally, Dumbledore's familiar is a Phoenix, so it would make good story sense for him to return from 'the dead.' It dose make good story sense for Harry to think him dead since Harry has been losing father figures left and right throughout the series and needs to come into his own as a hero.

2) If this is so, then Snape is still acting on Dumbledore's orders. He is now in the perfect position to be a deep cover double agent. Also, why didn't he take away his old potions book once he knew Harry had it (he must have known from either Harry's success in Potions or from his attack on Draco). Also, he kept stopping Harry from using Unforgivable Curses on him. I think he was in love with Harry's mother, which is why Dumbledore trusts him.

3) I think RAB is Regulus Black, Sirius' apparently deceased brother. Also, didn't they find a special locket in the Black family house last book? Maybe that was the missing Horcrux. Hmmm, that scene with Mundungus stealing things from the Black family house may be there to foreshadow a revelation that he had stolen that locket, too...

4) I think that Harry is the last Horcrux. We know that they can be living thinks like the Snake, and Voldemort was prepared to make one when he killed the Potters. Dumbledore also states that Harry's blood is more valuable than his own and Harry is curiously bonded to Voldemort...

Comments

[noire.livejournal.com]

I've thought the possible same about Dumbledore and Snape, but I don't want to think it because I one thing I really like and admire in the series is that there is real cost, real pain and death matters. I always feel cheated when characters who die (and for whom we grieve) come back. While it fulfills us on the fantasy-wish level, it dishonors the reality of death.

I'm just hoping that Rowling didn't do that by having Dumbledore come back.

OTOH, I *still* have my doubts/confusion about Snape! (And that's fine and good--he can be either way so long as death remains real and painful and sacrifice actally *means* something!)

[logisticslad.livejournal.com]

I agree that return from death should not be employed lightly. It's been way overused in comics, in soap operas, in D&D, and elsewhere. On the otherhand, if his death has been faked in order to serve the purposes of the plot, then I can better accept that. So why are we told that Dumbledore's new portrait in the Headmaster's office is sleeping? Is that because it takes some time for the magic to work, because there hadn't been a funeral yet, or because he isn't actually dead?

I think that Snape is one of the most interesting characters in the series and would love to hear more about his motives. I have been being annoyed at Harry's obsessive hatred of Snape in the last few books, as being unjustified.

[madknits.livejournal.com]

Are the portraits only of dead headmasters, or retired headmasters? If the former, then he's dead as Queen Anne. If the latter, well, he might not be dead yet, but he won't be coming back to Hogwarts.

Don't forget that Harry is an adolescent. And most adolescents feel things very passionately. Snape has never been pleasant to Harry, and goes out of his way to taunt him and belittle him. My experience with adolescents is that they would really hate someone like that intensely. It wouldn't need to be justified or explained, but that hatred would be deeply passionate.