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Mischief Managed... Not!
I believe there is a small mistake in the movie script of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

The error is when Professor Lupin says "Mischief managed"to the Marauder's Map,just after saying goodbye to Harry at the end of the movie.

In the book, Harry finds Lupin packing in his office, and Lupin says,"I saw you coming,"pointing to the map. On the next page, Lupin says to Harry:

"I am no longer your teacher,so I don't feel guilty about giving you back this as well.It's no use to me and I daresay you, Ron and Hermione will find uses for it." (PoA pg. 424/309)

But he doesn't work the map in Harry's presence.

However, in the movie, at the end of this scene, Lupin points his wand at the Marauder's Map and says, "Mischief managed."

Very cute way to wrap up the scene. But there's a problem. We know that Fred and George stole the map from Filch:

We let off a Dungbomb in the corridor and it upset him for some reason. So he hauled us off to his office and started threatening us with the usual, detention, disembowelment, and we couldn't help noticing a drawer in one of his filing cabinets marked Confiscated and Highly Dangerous." ... "George caused a diversion by dropping another Dungbomb. I whipped the drawer open and grabbed this. It's not as bad as it sounds, you know," said George. "We don't reckon Filch ever found out how to work it. He probably suspected what it was though, or he wouldn't have confiscated it." "And you know how to work it?" "Oh yes," said Fred, smirking. "This little beauty's taught us more than all the teachers in this school." (PoA pg. 191/143)

Fred and George had no connection with the original marauders, James, Sirius, Lupin and Peter Pettigrew. So, Fred and George would have had no way of knowing the original incantations used to operate the map.

I believe it's only logical to assume that Fred and George must have figured out how to use the map by trial and error. However, it's very unlikely they would have come up with the exact incantations the marauders used, instead, it's more likely that they came up with something close to the original incantations,and the map understood their rule-breaking intentions.

Now,Lupin,being one of the original marauders,knows the "real",original incantations that work the map.In addition,he would have no way of knowing what Fred and George's versions of the incantations were (and hence the versions Harry uses because Fred and George told Harry),because Harry never uses the map in front of Lupin.

"I solemnly swear I'm up to no good"and"Mischief managed" are the incantations that Fred and George made up.So, it doesn't make logical sense for Lupin to say "Mischief managed" to the map at the end of the movie!

Foreshadowings in Prisoner of Azkaban

In an interview released around the time of the theatrical premiere of Prisoner of Azkaban, an interview which is also on the Prisoner of Azkaban DVD, J.K. Rowling said:

"Alfonso [Cuaron] had very good intuition about what would and wouldn't work. He's put things in the film that, without knowing it, foreshadow things that are going to happen in the final two books. So, I really got goosebumps when I saw a couple of those things and I thought people are going to look back on the film and think those were put in deliberately as clues."

For fans of J.K.'s Harry Potter mystery, divining what these foreshadowings are could very well lend an important insight into what will be happening in Harry's future.

It's not easy taking notes in a dark theatre, but now that we have Prisoner of Azkaban on DVD, it's easier to delve deeper into the movie to try and find out exactly which parts of the movie that J.K. was referring to.

By referring closely to the DVD, I've found four moments in the movie that, while still keeping within the spirit of the story, do not appear in J.K.'s Prisoner of Azkaban book. That means that while OK'ed by J.K., these things were added to the story by the director Alfonso Cuaron and the screenwriter Steve Kloves, and so they could be the foreshadowing things that J.K. mentioned in the interview.

Snape, Sirius and Lupin in the Shrieking Shack

In the scene in the Shrieking Shack, Sirius is just on the verge of revealing that Scabbers is Peter Pettigrew, when they're interrupted by the arrival of Snape. While trying to tell Snape he's making a mistake, Sirius and Lupin tell each other to be quiet, at which point Snape comments:

"Oh,listen to you two,quarelling like an old married couple."

This is an odd thing for Snape to say.Is he only trying to disparage his old friends with an insulting comment?Or is he referring to a secret he knows about them,that possibly Sirius and Lupin's relationship goes deeper than best friends? After all,we know about James and his girlfriend Lily,but J.K. has never mentioned girlfriends of Sirius or Lupin.This perhaps takes on more meaning as we later find out in Order of the Phoenix that Lupin is living with Sirius in his house.

Of all the possibilities to be the foreshadowings that J.K. alluded to, I think this one is the least likely.

Professor Lupin and Harry on the covered bridge

After the Defense Against the Dark Arts class in which Lupin stops Harry from confronting the boggart, Harry and Lupin meet on the covered bridge. In this scene, Lupin says:

"The very first time I saw you Harry, I recognized you immediately. Not by your scar, but by your eyes. They're your mother, Lily's. Yes. Oh, yes. I knew her. Your mother was there at a time for me when no one else was. Not only was she a singularly gifted witch, she was also an uncommonly kind woman. She had a way of seeing the beauty in others, even and, perhaps, most especially, when that person could not see it in themselves."

The whole time Lupin is talking about Lily, he's facing away from Harry, and almost giving the feeling of reminiscing to himself. Was Lily just nice to Lupin, or did Lily and Remus actually have a relationship before Lily and James got together?

If Lily was just nice to Remus, that could go a long way to explain why Lily at first didn't like James, but they somehow ended up together, we don't yet know why. She saw something in James the way she saw something in Lupin when no one else did.

If Lily and Remus really did have a relationship, then there could be some emotional events related to this in the period we know so little about leading up to Voldemort killing James and Lily that night in Godrics Hollow.

In this scene, Lupin also says:

"You're more like them than you know, Harry. In time you'll come to see just how much."

Sirius, Ron and Harry in the tunnel to the Shrieking Shack

Finally, after the scene in the Shrieking Shack, Harry and Sirius are helping Ron back down the passageway, as Ron is complaining about his injured leg, and Sirius says:

"Normally, I have a very sweet disposition as a dog. In fact, more than once, James suggested that I make the change permanent. The tail I could live with. But the fleas, they're murder."

Since Order of the Phoenix was published, a great debate has risen among fans as to whether Sirius is really dead or not. In the battle at the Department of Mysteries, after Sirius falls through the veil, Lupin tells Harry, "There's nothing you can do. He cannot come back." So, J.K. is strongly implying that it's a rule, once someone crosses over, they never can come back.

But what if there's a loop-hole? Sirius crossed over to the other side of the veil as Sirius. What if he could come back as a dog? He wouldn't be crossing back over, because the dog had never crossed over in the first place. Unfortunately, if he did this, he'd be stuck being a dog, because since he crossed over, Sirius is not allowed on this side of the veil.

This could be the most important foreshadowing in the movie. It mentions a way that Sirius might be able to use to come back, and in the end Harry and his Godfather Sirius could be reunited once more.

Snape physically protects Harry, Ron and Hermione

In the scene when Professor Lupin wolfs out, when Snape is suddenly confronted by the situation, even though he is in the middle of being mad at Harry, Ron and Hermione, his immediate reaction is to put himself between Lupin and the kids to protect them.

Although Snape does things in previous books to prevent harm from coming to Harry, for instance, when he does the counter-curse to prevent him from falling off his broom in the first book, he's never done anything nice out in the open. Because of this, Harry still does not trust him. We readers know he's working against the death-eaters in secret for Dumbledore, but can we be sure?

This scene makes Erika Hill over at The Quibbler wonder if Snape's actions in this scene is foreshadowing some sacrifice Snape makes later on Harry's behalf. He might even be the character who dies in the future books, and he could do so by physically protecting Harry, allowing us to be sure once and for all that Snape was a good-guy, and forcing Harry to reappraise his feelings about Snape and his motives.

Was it something I said?

In the book and the movie, the second time we see Professor Trelawney's class is also when Hermione gets fed up with Divination and storms out of the class, the last straw being told by Professor Trelawney that she has no talent for this particular kind of magic. In the book, Professor Trelawney says,

"I am sorry to say that from the moment you arrived in this class, my dear, it has been apparent that you do not have what the noble art of Divination requires. Indeed, I don't remember ever meeting a student whose mind was so hopelessly Mundane."

However, in the movie, Professor Trelawney, wonderfully played by Emma Thompson, goes much further:

"My dear, from the first moment you step foot in my class, I sensed that you did not possess the proper spirit for the noble art of divination. No, you see, there. Oh, you may be young in years, but the heart that beats beneath your bosom is as shrivelled as an old maid's, your soul as dry as the pages of the books to which you so desperately cleave."

For Wizard News reader Jesse in Seatte, Washington, this scene triggered a question that Jesse's friends and I had never pondered, which is why is Hermione so smart, seemingly beyond her years?

What if Hermione's really a much older witch, taking the guise of a young girl to be closer to Harry while he's at Hogwarts? Perhaps she was sent there by Dumbledore, to protect him. But what if there are sinister motives involved? It's possible that Snape's not the only "double-agent" at Hogwarts!
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1.If Snape Didn't Fulfill The Unbreakable Vow,Why Isn't He Dead?
There are three unanswered aspects to this question.

First,do unbreakable vows have a time limit?It's unlikely they do,because you'd think it would have to be stated when the vow was made,and no such time limit was set.
But if they don't have time limits,then it's sort of hard to enforce an unbreakable vow,isn't it?
"Hey!You didn't fulfill your promise!" "No wait! I just haven't gotten around to it,you can't kill me yet!"
Second,I believe if you re-read all of chapter 2, you'll see that the exact details of Draco's task are never spoken outloud in that scene,we only learn of the details later.
If the exact nature of what Snape's promising to do are not spoken exactly,but possibly only an understanding between the parties,what promise is he held to,exactly?Can he be held to details of a vow that weren't expressly stated?Am I watching too many lawyer shows on TV?
One of Draco's main tasks was to fix the vanishing cabinet so he could sneak his Death Eater pals into Hogwarts.Perhaps that's what Snape vowed to help with, and in that case,Draco suceeeded, so Snape's off the hook.
Third,this unanswerable question is based on the assumption that Dumbledore isn't really dead,so Snape didn't kill him,so he didn't fulfill the vow.
But what if the person you made the vow with thinks you fulfilled it?The world,including Narcissa and Bellatrix and you,possibly, up until you read this site!)thinks that Dumbledore is dead.So does that fulfill Snape's vow?
This one is possibly unanswerable until we can either dig out some more clues buried elsewhere in the book, or possibly we won't know until book 7.

2. Doesn't Dumbledore's Portrait Mean That He's Dead?

Does it state anywhere in a Harry Potter book that you have to be dead to be on the wall in the headmaster's office?I can't prove this,but I think it's just more likely the only requirement is you have to be a former headmaster,and it just so happens all of the former headmasters previous to Dumbledore are currently dead.
The book says:
...a new portrait had joined the ranks of the dead headmasters and headmistresses of Hogwarts umbledore was slumbering in a golden frame above his desk,his half-moon spectacles perched upon his crooked nose, looking peaceful and untroubled.(HBP pg 626/584)
Yes,we see it says Dumbledore joined the ranks of the dead headmasters.But that doesn't necessarily mean he is dead,it just means the others of the ranks he was joining were dead.
2a.If Dumbledore Is Alive, Where Is Umbridge's Portrait?
So,you may say,if all the portraits on the wall in the headmaster's office aren't necessarily dead, then where's the portrait of Dolores Jane Umbridge? She was temporarily headmistress last year.
First of all,we don't know there's not a portrait of Umbridge.It's never been mentioned,but it's never been mentioned there isn't one,either.
But,some have asked, the event of the death of the headmaster is surely what triggers the creation of the new portrait.

Unfortunately,we just don't know enough about this. For example,it's possible that you may have actually had to have worked in the office to be honored there. That would leave the toad-lady out,since she was locked out of the headmaster's office during her tenure.Or,perhaps,it is a declaration by the Hogwarts board of governers which creates the portrait,in which case,Umbridge wouldn't have one because the ministry appointed her.
Of course,it's also possible that Dolores is so hated, that the other portraits got together and banned her portrait to a closet someplace...

3. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
And speaking of Umbridge...
Everyone who was everyone in the Wizarding world showed up for Dumbledore's funeral,including Dolores! Weren't you a bit shocked to see her there?
She could have been there out of respect,but we know she wouldn't mean it,and as she must surely be way down on the Ministry ladder right now,who would she be trying to impress by the act?
I think it's much more likely that it was arranged for her to be there,as a witness.If the plan was to have the world believe that Dumbledore is dead, then having the toad-lady there as a witness to his funeral would be pretty compelling proof for the Dumbledore haters who Umbridge represents that Dumbledore really is gone.

4. The Draught of Living Death

Potions come into play a lot in the course of Half-Blood Prince.In chapter 9,Professor Slughorn presents four already-made potions to his first class,three of which figure prominently in the story.
They are Veritaserum(truth potion),Polyjuice Potion, which we find out later is being used by Crabbe and Goyle to disguise themselves as girls while they're lookouts for Draco,Amortentia(love potion),which Ron accidentally injests from a candy meant for Harry, and Feilx Felicis, which aids the members of Dumbledore's Army later in the climax of the story.

Then,in the same class,Harry,with the aid of the Half-Blood Prince,produces a perfect Draught of Living Death,which was introduced to us way back in Snape's first lesson in the first book.Interestingly,in pratically the same breath,Snape also mentions the bezoar which also figures prominently in Half-Blood Prince,and also wolfsbane,which we know helps Lupin later in Prisoner of Azkaban:

"For your information,Potter,asphodel and wormwood make a sleeping potion so powerful it is known as the Draught of Living Death.A bezoar is a stone taken from the stomach of a goat and it will save you from most poisons.As far as monkshood and wolfsbane,they are the same plant...(SS/PS pg 138/103)

Some fans are speculating that the fifth potion in this scene is important too, that Dumbledore uses the Draught of Living Death to somehow fake his dead that night up on the tower. While this theory is possible, besides the mention of the Draught of Living Death here in chapter 9, to my knowledge there is no other evidence to support this theory.

Other fans speculate that whatever Dumbledore had to drink in the cave to get access to the locket/horcrux either is or is related to the Draught of Living Death. This is also possible, we'll just have to wait until Book 7 to see for sure.

5. Will The Real Dumbledore Please Stand Up?

Another theory some fans have put forward involves a clue that has to do with Dumbledore's pensieve.

When we first see the pensieve in Goblet of Fire, Dumbledore demonstates for Harry how memories are put into it:

Dumbledore drew his wand out of the inside of his robes and placed the tip into his own silvery hair, near his temple. When he took the wand away, hair seemed to be clinging to it -- but then Harry saw that it was in fact a glistening strand of the same strange silvery-white substance that filled the Pensieve. Dumbledore added this fresh thought to the basin, and Harry, astonished, saw his own face swimming around the surface of the bowl. (GoF pg 597/519)

We saw the pensieve in operation in Order of the Phoenix also:

Snape pulled out his wand from an inside pocket of his robes and Harry tensed in his chair, but Snape merely raised the wand to his temple and placed the tip into the greasy roots of his hair. When he withdrew it, some silvery substance came away, stretching from temple to wand like a thick gossamer strand, which broke as he pulled the wand away from it and fell gracefully into the Pensieve, where it swirled silvery white, neither gas nor liquid. (OotP pg 533/471)

Both nearly identical descriptions of two different people putting a memory of their own into the pensieve.

But now, take a look at this from Half-Blood Prince:

"...I have two last memories that I would like to share with you." Dumbledore indicated the two little crystal bottles gleaming beside the Pensieve. (HBP pg 430/402)

"And now for the very last recollection I have to show you" ... Harry got to his feet once more as Dumbledore emptied the last memory into the Pensieve. "Who's memory is it?" he asked. "Mine," said Dumbledore. (HBP pg 440/412)

If this was his own memory, why would Dumbledore have stored this memory in a bottle rather than just pull it out his head the way he and Snape had done before?

Although I consider this unlikely, fans are pointing to this clue to theorize that Dumbledore hasn't been Dumbledore for all of, or at least a great portion of, the book, and that the Dumbledore we see is someone using Polyjuice potion to pretend to be him, and therefore the real Dumbledore isn't dead. Only a fake Dumbledore would have to have the memory in a bottle, because only the real Dumbledore could take it directly out of his head.

But it's also just possible Dumbledore sealed the important memory in the bottle for safe-keeping

Sinking our teeth into the character of Snape

by David Haber
The Harry Potter books are finished. The story no longer belongs to J.K. Rowling, it belongs to us now. And while the final book nicely wrapped up the major questions in the Harry Potter septology mystery, there are still facets of the story that have not been explained, and never will be. J.K. Rowling can comment now, after the fact, on these questions, but the books stand as they are, and it is up to us, the fans, to discuss and debate these eternal Harry Potter mysteries and theories.

One of these theories that I've personally strongly believed for a long time, and still do, is that Severus Snape is a vampire, or at least, is part vampire. There are clues in all the books that point to this conclusion, over the years, J.K. has (sort of) denied that he is, and yet she continued dropping these hints even throughout book 7.

In all theories, there is one major clue that is uncovered first which gives rise to the idea that the theory could be possible, this is the "cornerstone clue", and then we start looking for other clues that could support or disprove the theory. In the theory that Snape is a vampire, the cornerstone clue occurs in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Prisoner of Azkaban is an important book, because in it we meet all the surviving Marauders, and learn a lot about Harry's dad and his dad's friends.

In Prisoner of Azkaban, when Lupin has to miss teaching class because of "his furry little problem" and Snape takes over the class, he skips over all the normal upcoming lessons and teaches them how to recognize a werewolf, even assigning them a homework essay on the subject:

When the bell rang at last, Snape held them back. "You will each write an essay, to be handed in to me, on the ways you recognize and kill werewolves. I want two rolls of parchment on the subject, and I want them by Monday morning." (PoA pg 172/129)



Snape knew Lupin was a werewolf, we know there was animosity between him and Lupin because of Lupin's days as part of James Potter's gang, an animosity no doubt increased by the humiliation of the boggart of Snape becoming dressed in Neville's grandmother's clothes in Lupin's class earlier. When Snape assigned this essay to Lupin's class, it was obviously in an effort to help students realize that Lupin was a werewolf, thereby revealing Lupin's secret, which would no doubt result in Lupin being sacked as a teacher. Lupin later comes right out and says so:

"He assigned that essay hoping someone would realize what my symptoms meant..." (PoA pg 346/253)

Snape's werewolf essay in Lupin's class is a major plot point to the story, it illustrates the animosity towards Snape and Lupin and helps us understand the dynamics of Snape and the Marauders. It's very interesting then, isn't it, that J.K. uses this very important plot point to plant a clue about Snape? Later in the book, in the chapter coincidentally named "Snape's Grudge", Harry is about to make his way to Hogsmeade for the first time using the Marauders' Map, and runs into Neville:

"What are you up to?" "Nothing," shrugged Neville. "Want a game of Exploding Snap?" "Er -- not now -- I was going to the library and do that vampire essay for Lupin --" (PoA pg 276/204)

Clever, isn't she? J.K. has just, in passing, established that Lupin assigned his students an essay on vampires, without her showing him actually do it. And why did Lupin assign the vampire essay? Can there be any doubt that he did it to get back at Snape for assigning the werewolf essay?

Another big clue comes in the same book as the cornerstone clue, at the very end of Prisoner of Azkaban, after Harry has just learned that Snape's wish had come true, and that Lupin was resigning from Hogwarts because it had gotten out that he was a werewolf:

He certainly wasn't the only one who was sorry to see Professor Lupin go. The whole of Harry's Defense Against the Dark Arts class was miserable at his resignation. "Wonder what they'll give us next year?" said Seamus Finnigan gloomily. "Maybe a vampire," suggested Dean Thomas hopefully. (PoA pg 429/312)

Snape was, of course, eventually named DADA teacher, although it took a few more years to do it. Is it just a coincidence that it is the DADA teacher position that a vampire is mentioned in connection with?

The very first time vampires are mentioned, in the very first book, it's mentioned not in regards to Snape, but to Quirrell, when Harry first meets him on our very first visit to the Leaky Cauldron:

"You'll be g-getting all your equipment, I suppose? I've g-got to p-pick up a new b-book on vampires, m-myself." He looked terrified at the very thought. (SS/PS pg 70/55)

Hmm... Almost the very first thing we learn about Professor Quirrell is that he's afraid of vampires. And who does he go on to be afraid of during the whole book? Snape.

And why does Quirrell's turban smell like garlic?

Quirrell's lessons turned out to be a bit of a joke. His classroom smelled strongly of garlic, which everyone said was to ward off a vampire he'd met in Romania and was afraid would be coming back to get him one of these days ... they had noticed that a funny smell hung around the turban, and the Weasley twins insisted that it was stuffed full of garlic, as well, so that Quirrell was protected wherever he went. (SS/PS pg 134/100)

I think we are meant to believe that the garlicky smell is coming from Voldemort who is in Quirrell's head, but J.K. herself is again here bringing up how garlic wards off vampires, and it was somehow protecting Quirrell. But Voldy was already in his head, he didn't need protecting from him. The person he needed protecting from was Snape, who he knew was after whatever secret he was hiding. And, by the way, these clues again come during a chapter named after Snape, this time, "The Potions Master".

By the way, garlic is only mentioned three times in the Harry Potter books, once in SS/PS as described above, once in Prisoner of Azkaban, with the cornerstone clue, and only one other time, in Chamber of Secrets. Interestingly, this time it is not in reference to warding off a vampire:

Ginny didn't find it amusing either. "Oh, don't," she wailed every time Fred asked Harry loudly who he was planning to attack next, or when George pretended to ward Harry off with a large clove of garlic when they met. (CoS pg 210/157)

So, it would seem that garlic not only wards off vampires, it also wards off dark wizards (at least in the humorous world of Fred and George). Whether or not Snape fits the first description, he definitely fits the second.

And while we're on the subject of Chamber of Secrets, the only mention of vampires in this book is in relation to Gilderoy Lockhart's book, "Voyages with Vampires". Seven of Lockhart's books are on their Hogwarts book list for the year, "Break with a Banshee", "Gadding with Ghouls", "Holidays with Hags", "Travels with Trolls", "Voyages with Vampires", "Wanderings with Werewolves" and "Year with the Yeti" (Cos pg 43/38) . So why is it that, throughout the rest of the book, Hermione seems to be only interested in "Voyages with Vampires"? She has a copy propped up against a milk jug and is reading it on pg 86/68, it's mentioned again by name in the same scene a few pages later, she has her nose buried in it again on pg 96/75, and it is mentioned by name again as she closes it with a snap a page later. Is J.K. playing a game with us now, waving the vampire book in our face?

This may or may not be Snape related, but Percy says something disturbing about vampires in Goblet of Fire. In an angry moment triggered by something in the Daily Prophet written by Rita Skeeter, Percy says:

"That woman's got it in for the Ministry of Magic!" said Percy furiously. "Last week she was saying we're wasting our time quibbling about cauldron thickness, when we should be stampimg out vampires! As if it wasn't specifically stated in paragraph twelve of the Guidelines for the Treatment of Non-Wizard Part-Humans --" "Do us a favor Perce," said Bill yawning, "and shut up." (GoF pg 147/131)

This passage is interesting, because from it we learn that even though vampires are protected by Wizard law, some wizards, like the crowd Rita Skeeter panders to, would rather be killing them. So, if Snape is a vampire, no wonder he's hiding it.

Of course, as everyone knows, vampires can turn themselves into bats. The first direct reference to Snape being a bat or like a bat comes towards the end of the first book. Harry discovers Quirrel in the room where the stone was hidden, and expresses his surprise that he'd expected Snape instead:

"Severus?" Quirrell laughed, and it wasn't his usual quivering treble, either, but cold and sharp. "Yes, Severus does seem the type, doesn't he? So useful to have him swooping around like an over-grown bat." (SS/PS pg 288/209)

In the next book, Chamber of Secrets, J.K. does it again:

"A bad idea, Professor Lockhart," said Snape, gliding over like a large and malevolent bat. (Cos pg 193/144)

The next book which directly mentions Snape and bats is in Half-Blood Prince, the book that is, after all, all about Snape. He is DADA teacher now, and while his class is practicing nonverbal spells, J.K. tells us:
He swept between them as they practiced, looking just as much like an overgrown bat as ever... (HBP pg 179/170)
And again, this clue about Snape appears in a chapter named for Snape, the chapter is titled "The Half-Blood Prince".
Of course, the ultimate Snape bat clue comes in the final book, Deathly Hallows. Just prior to the battle of Hogwarts, Snape resigns his headmastership by fleeing, jumping through a classroom window.
"You mean he's dead?" Harry sprinted to the window, ignoring Flitwick's and Sprout's yells of shock at his sudden appearance. "No, he's not dead," said McGonagall bitterly. "Unlike Dumbledore, he was still carrying a wand...and he seems to have learned a few tricks from his master." With a tinge of horror, Harry saw in the distance a huge, batlike shape flying through the darkness toward the perimeter wall. (DH pg 599/482)
So, not only does he look like a bat, now Snape can fly like one too. Earlier in the book, we learned Voldemort had learned to fly. But only this time is the ability described as "batlike". And how do we know Snape learned it from Voldemort, as McGonagall assumed? Perhaps it was Snape who taught his master how to do it...
And once again, this clue comes in a chapter named for him, "The Sacking of Severus Snape".
Finally, there is one more bat clue, also in Deathly Hallows, but it takes place in "The Prince's Tale" (again a chapter named for Snape), many years before the Harry Potter books, when Snape is "no more than nine or ten years old":
Harry wondered why he did not take off the ridiculously large coat, unless it was because he did not want to reveal the smock beneath it. He flapped after the girls, looking ludicrously bat-like, like his older self. (DH pg 664/533)
There are many other smaller clues in the books which also support the theory.
The first time we meet him in Sorcerer's Stone, Snape is described as having "sallow skin" (SS/PS pg 126/94). In Chamber of Secrets, Snape is described as "a thin man with sallow skin" (CoS pg 78/62). He's also described as sallow in Prisoner of Azkaban (pg 93/72), Goblet of Fire, (pg 175/155)... well, you get the idea.
Sallow means "a sickly, yellowish color", and is usually used to describe a person's complexion. In folklore, vampires are frequently described as being sallow.
This is repeated again later in Deathly Hallows, the nine or ten-year-old Severus is also described as "sallow, small, stringy" (DH pg 663/532), and later in the chapter, Snape's mother, Eileen Prince, is described as "a thin, sallow-faced, sour-looking woman who greatly resembled him [Snape]" (DH pg 668/536). Does Snape take after his mother? Is he part vampire because of her?
There are other qualities of vampires that Snape also seems to fulfill. He works and lives in the dungeon, and is seen prowling the castle at night.
Vampires don't eat normal food, they only drink blood, Snape is seen sitting at the table at Hogwarts feasts, but is he ever described as eating something there? Snape is present at the Christmas dinner in Prisoner of Azkaban (pg 227/169) but there is no mention of him actually eating. And in Order of the Phoenix, after Harry discovers Snape is in the Order and was attending the meeting, J.K. goes out of her way to have Ron tell us, "Snape never eats here, thank God." (OotP pg 77/73)
Non-believers in this theory say that Snape is seen out during the daytime, and while it never says Snape is seen eating, someone would obviously notice it if he wasn't. But I believe it is possible that Snape could only partially have the symptoms of a vampire. It could be because, if he inherited it from his mother, he is only half-vampire. We have many other examples of characters in Harry Potter books who are half human and half something else, Hagrid, for example, who is half human and half giant, and Flitwick, who is obviously half human, the other half possibly being elf or goblin. It is also possible that Snape is taking a potion which lessens his vampire symptoms, a potion like the one he makes and gives to Lupin to help him get through his werewolf periods. Did you ever wonder, why did Snape become so good at potions? Was it so that he could learn to make the potion he needed to surive as a part-vampire?
And for those who would say that you can't inherit being a vampire, you have to be bitten, I would remind you that a bite is required to become a werewolf as well, and yet, in Deathly Hallows, Lupin is worried his son might inherit the condition.
As to this subject as to whether Snape is a vampire or not, J.K. has spoken twice. At the World Book Day Chat on March 4, 2004, someone asked, "Is there a link between Snape and vampires?" J.K. replied, "Erm... I don't think so." Not quite the resounding denial, is it?
But, wait. In a chat with Harry Potter fan web sites in July 2005, J.K. is talking about the weird theories fans come up with, and says:
"Generally speaking, I shut down those lines of speculation that are plain unprofitable. Even with the shippers. God bless them, but they had a lot of fun with it. It's when people get really off the wall -- it's when people devote hours of their time to proving that Snape is a vampire that I feel it's time to step in, because there's really nothing in the canon that supports that. It's after the 15th rereading when you have spots in front of your eyes that you start seeing clues about Snape being the Lord of Darkness. So, there are things I shut down just because I think, well, don't waste your time, there's better stuff to be debating, and even if it's wrong, it will probably lead you somewhere interesting. That's my rough theory anyway."
Don't forget, she said this in July 2005, after the release of Book 6, and there's still lots of stuff she couldn't "come clean" on until after the release of the final book. Is J.K. deliberately trying to throw us off the track? The fact that Snape was a vampire did not figure prominently in the ending of the story, but what if she wanted us to think it did, to get us off the track, making the ending an even bigger surprise?
But as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. You've heard J.K.'s words on the subject. But the clincher for me on this whole theory, is J.K's own picture of Snape, the way she, herself, sees him:
This is a picture that J.K. drew of Snape that is in her notes, that she held up for the camera during a TV interview many years ago. You'll notice that he's drawn without legs, with his cape flowing in the breeze below and behind him, as if he is floating (or flying). And he is shown wearing the kind of cape with the high collar in the back, very reminiscent of every vampire we've ever seen in a Hollywood movie.
So, do these clues mean that Snape is really a vampire, or part vampire? Or did J.K. Rowling plant them, and continue planting them through the end of Book 7, just to have fun with us and get us off the track of the real solution to the Potter septology mystery? We will never know for sure, but I personally believe these clues mean Snape is part vampire. What do you think?

How did Neville get Gryffindor's sword?

Right before he cuts off Nagini's head, how did Neville get Gryffindor's sword, if Griphook had it last? Don't feel bad if you don't know the answer to this question, because many fans missed this.
As Harry is laying on the ground with everybody thinking he is dead, Neville steps up to challenge Voldemort. Voldemort causes the Hogwarts sorting hat to fly out of the castle and into his hands. Explaining that it won't be needed anymore, he forces the hat onto Neville's head and causes it burst into flames. And then all hell breaks loose as the good guys attack.
With this, Neville springs into action:
In one swift, fluid motion, Neville broke free of the Body-Bind Curse upon him; the flaming hat fell off him and he drew from its depths something silver, with a glittering, rubied handle -- (DH pg 733/587)
So, finally showing the bravery of a true Gryffindor, Neville pulled the sword out of the hat, exactly as Harry did in the Chamber of Secrets.
But how did the sorting hat get the sword when Griphook had it last? The book does not say, but now that we've seen the hat do it twice, (Harry in the Chamber of Secrets and now Neville in Deathly Hallows), we have to assume that the hat has the magical ability to conjure up Gryffindor's sword from wherever it is, whenever a true Gryffindor shows the courage required and has a need for it.

10. Why is Teddy going to Hogwarts when he is 19?

He's not.
If the Epilogue happens 19 years after the story, why is Teddy Lupin seen on Platform 9 3/4? He would have been born shortly after Book 7 starts, which means he would have been 19 years old at this time, two tears older than the most senior Hogwarts students.
The answer to this is simple. Teddy was not on Platform 9 3/4 that day to actually get on the train to Hogwarts. James says:
"Our Teddy! Teddy Lupin! Snogging our Victoire! Our cousin! And I asked what he was doing --" "You interrupted them?" said Ginny. "Your are so like Ron --" "-- and he said he'd come to see her off!" (DH pg 756/605)
And although it doesn't say it, we can also pretty easily guess from the clues about their cousin and her French name, but J.K. has confirmed, that Victoire is Bill and Fluer's daughter.

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Dumbledore Is Not Dead!

I was Ccught up in the roller coaster of J.K.'s marvelous and fantastic mysteries, Snape's betrayal and the death of Dumbledore caught me completely by surprise. Dumbledore was dead, and on top of that, Snape had done it.

My brand-new copy of Half-Blood Prince became as tear-stained as one of Hagrid's notes, and I remained upset about it all the rest of the day.

But after sleeping on it, the next day I realized that there were important clues about Snape and Dumbledore that I had missed. And the more I looked back, the more clues I found, realizing that they had been there all along.

And all of the clues point to two possibilities, that Dumbledore's not really dead, or at the very least, that Snape's not really a Death Eater, and he killed Dumbledore because Dumbledore ordered him to, as part of a grand plan.

I've created this web site for Harry Potter fans who were just as upset as I was upon first reading the new book, to help them understand and feel better about the mysterious "death" of Dumbledore. Think of this site as Half-Blood Prince therapy.

While of course only J.K. knows for sure, at least we can comfort ourselves with the possiblity that there's more going on at the end of Half-Blood Prince than meets the eye.

I don't think finding these clues is wishful thinking. We know J.K. intentionally hides many clues in her books, daring her readers to be what our friends at Wizarding World Press call "HP Sleuths", uncovering the details of the mystery she so masterfully weaves into the fabric of the Harry Potter books.

If you need more convincing that J.K. hides clues in her books, take a look at this non-Dumbledore-death-related example, which uses actual quotes from the book as we will be doing throughout this website (page numbers from US edition/UK edition):

This left Harry, Ron and Hermione to share a table with Ernie. They chose one nearest a gold-colored cauldron that was emitting one of the most seductive scents Harry had ever inhaled: Somehow it reminded him simultaneously of treacle tart, the woody smell of a broomstick handle, and something flowery he thought he might have smelled at the Burrow. (HBP pg 183/174)

"You recognized it, I suppose, by its distinctive mother-of-pearl sheen?" "And the steam rising in characteristic spirals," said Hermione enthusiastically, "and it's supposed to smell differently to each of us, according to what attracts us.." (HBP pg 185/176)

"Hang on," a voice said to Harry's left ear and he caught a sudden waft of that flowery smell he had picked up in Slughorn's dungeon. He looked around and saw that Ginny had joined them. (HBP pg 192/182)

There, in the span of approximately nine pages, J.K. has laid out clues that Harry likes Ginny, and we know now that in the course of the book he does come to that conclusion.

On this site we'll discuss the various clues all throughout Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince that will help us get through the tragedy at the end of the book.

And while we do this, we will be declaring our love and admiration for Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, and stand together with Harry in declaring that we're "Dumbledore's man" (or woman), never giving up on him, and never forgetting what he means to Harry, Hogwarts and us.

As Harry so poignantly reminded us upon Scrimgeour's insistance that Dumbledore was dead:

"Such loyalty is admirable, or course," said Scrimgeour, who seemed to be restraining his irritation with difficulty, "but Dumbledore is gone, Harry. He's gone." "He will only be gone from the school when none here are loyal to him," said Harry, smiling in spite of himself. (HBP pg 648/604)

These are some of the excellent clues contained in the pages of Harry Pottter and the Half-Blood Prince which support the possibility that Dumbledore is not really dead, or at least Snape killed Dumbledore on Dumbledore's orders, and that everything that happened that night was planned well in advance by Dumbledore himself.

Each one of these clues is perhaps, by itself not completely convincing, but if you put them all together...

1. Dumbledore's Big Chill

Harry and Dumbledore are up on the top of the tower underneath the Dark Mark. Harry is wearing his invisibility cloak, Dumbledore ordered him to put it on before they mounted their brooms to ride to the top of the tower. Harry hears footsteps and looks around, but Dumbledore orders him with a gesture to retreat. Harry draws his wand and backs away:

The door burst open and somebody erupted through it and shouted, "Expelliarmus!" Harry's body became instantly rigid and immobile, and he felt himself fall back against the tower wall, propped like an unsteady statue, unable to move or speak.(HBP pg 584/545)

It's interesting to note that things are happening so fast, even Harry is momentarily confused:

He could not understand how it happened -- Expelliarmus was not a Freezing Charm -- Then, by the light of the Mark, he saw Dumbledore's wand flying in an arc over the edge of the ramparts and understood... Dumbledore had wordlessly immobilzed Harry, and the second he had taken to perform this spell had cost him the chance of defending himself. (HBP pg 584/545)

Why did Dumbledore freeze Harry? Harry was already invisible to their attackers and in no danger.

The only explanation could be that Dumbledore already knew, had already planned, that he would die this night (or appear to die), and not only did he not want Harry to become involved and possibly be injured himself, he needed Harry to be a witness, to be able to tell everyone else what happened.

Dumbledore might have also promised Snape that he would make sure that Harry would not be able to interfere, knowing how Harry feels about Snape and what Snape was about to have to do.

The supposition that it was Dumbledore's plan to do this all along is supported by the fact that he acted so quickly to do it, almost without thinking, when Draco burst in on the scene.

Harry's own assumption that the Freezing Charm was done by Dumbledore is supported by the fact the curse lifted when Dumbledore left the tower minutes later.

2. Let's All Play Dead Together [Updated 5/27/07]

While Dumbledore is trying to talk Draco out of killing him, Dumbledore proposes an interesting way out for Draco:

"I can help you, Draco." "No, you can't," said Malfoy, his wand shaking very badly indeed. "Nobody can. He told me to do it or he'd kill me. I've got no choice." "He cannot kill you if you are already dead. Come over to the right side, Draco, and we can hide you more completely than you can possibly imagine." (HBP pg 591/552)

Dumbledore then offers to expand his mother in the protection, and even Lucius when he gets out of Azkaban.

This is very interesting, isn't it? Draco doesn't take him up on it, but Dumbledore is saying he has ways that could make it appear that Draco died when he really hadn't. If we believe that Dumbledore is about to fake his own death, doesn't what he's suggesting for Draco sound exactly like what we suspect that Dumbledore has planned for himself? At the very least, if Dumbledore's planning his own death, he's suggesting Draco follow a similar, yet not as drastic, plan, that he disappear as well.

This clue in Half-Blood Prince is especially interesting when placed next to another passage written much earlier. In the introduction to Quidditch Through The Ages, which was released between Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix, J.K. writes as Dumbledore:

She [Madam Pince] suggested several alternatives, such as telling the people from Comic Relief U.K. that the library had burned down, or simply pretending that I had dropped dead without leaving instructions. (QttA pg viii)

Not only does J.K. mention fire in this passage (see clue #9 below), she also very clearly describes Dumbeldore himself suggesting using his own death as part of a plan. Again, exactly what we suspect Dumbledore did at the end of Half-Blood Prince.

IMPORTANT REVELATION!
UK Edition Missing Important Text!

The UK edition of Half-Blood Prince is missing some text that is included in the American edition, and it's text that is very important to this clue!

This is the text as it appears in the UK edition:

"He told me to do it or he'll kill me. I've got not choice." "Come over to the right side, Draco, and we can hide you more completely than you can possibly imagine. What is more, I can send members of the Order to your mother tonight to hide her likewise. Your father is safe at the moment in Azkaban...when the time comes we can protect him too...come over to the right side, Draco...you are not a killer..." Malfoy stared at Dumbledore. (HBP UK Edition pg 552)

But this is the same passage from the American edition (text missing from the UK edition highlighted):

"He told me to do it or he'll kill me. I've got no choice." "He cannot kill you if you are already dead. Come over to the right side Draco, and we can hide you more completely than you can possibly imagine. What is more, I can send members of the Order to your mother tonight to hide her likewise. Nobody would be surprised that you had died in your attempt to kill me -- forgive me, but Lord Voldemort probably expects it. Nor would the Death Eaters be surprised that we had captured and killed your mother -- it is what they would do themselves, after all. Your father is safe at the moment in Azkaban...When the time comes we can protect him too. Come over to the right side, Draco...you are not a killer..." Malfoy stared at Dumbledore. (HBP US Edition pg 591)

Both of the ommissions are directly related, they are about having Draco appeared to have died, so it would seem the ommisions are intentional.

Did J.K. include those lines originally, and then decide she had gone too far and made the clue too transparent and obvious? Is it possible she decided to remove them, but the lines got accidentally included in the American edition anyway?

IMPORTANT REVELATION UPDATE!

We have learned that the US paperback edition of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince DOES NOT contain the extra text that the hardcover edition does.

This confirms our supposition that it was an edit made by J.K. that failed to make it into the US edition. The US edition now (at least in paperback form) has the originally intended edit.

Also, according to reports, the phrase He cannot kill you if you are already dead was also not included in the French version of the book.

3. Fawkes doesn't try to save Dumbledore

We've seen Fawkes come in at the last moment and save Harry's life in Chamber of Secrets:

As Harry trembled, ready to close his eyes if it turned, he saw what had distracted the snake. Fawkes was soaring around its head, and the basilisk was snapping furiously at him with fangs long and thin as sabers -- Fawkes dived. His long golden beak sunk out of sight and a sudden shower of dark blood spattered the floor. (CoS pg 318/234)

And he also saved Dumbledore in Order of the Phoenix:

... one more jet of green light had flown at Dumbledore from Voldemort's wand and the snake had struck -- Fawkes swooped down in front of Dumbledore, opened his beak wide, and swallowed the jet of green light whole. He burst into flame and fell to the floor, small, wrinkled and flightless. (OotP pg 814/719)

We know Fawkes was nearby the tower, as he shows up after Dumbledore's "death". So, why didn't Fawkes come to save Dumbledore this time?

I think the fact that he didn't makes it possible to believe that Dumbledore didn't want his life to be saved, and this supports the theory that it was Dumbledore's plan all along to die up on that tower that night.

4. The Flying Avada Kedavra [Updated 3/9/06]

As soon as I read the description of exactly what happened the moment that Snape killed Dumbledore, little red flags were popping up in my brain, but I didn't pay attention to them at first. This was actually the very first clue that alerted me to this whole thing.

Every other time we've seen the Avada Kedavra performed, the victim simply falls over dead:

He was screaming so loudly that he never heard the words the thing in the chair spoke as it raised a wand. There was a flash of green light, a rushing sound, and Frank Bryce crumbled. He was dead before he hit the floor. (GoF pg 15/19)

From high above his head, he heard a high, cold voice say, "Kill the spare." A swishing noise and a second voice, which screeched the words to the night: "Avada Kedavra!" A blast of green light blazed through Harry's eyelids, and he heard something heavy fall to ground beside him. Cedric was lying spread-eagled on the ground beside him. He was dead. (GoF pg 638/553)

However, in Half-Blood Prince, when Snape curses Dumbledore with the same spell, Dumbledore violently flies up and away from the tower:

Snape raised his wand and pointed it directly at Dumbledore. "Avada Kedavra!" A jet of green light shot from the end of Snape's wand and hit Dumbledore squarely in the chest. Harry's scream of horror never left him; silently he was forced to watch as Dumbledore was blasted into the air. For a split second, he seemed to hang suspended beneath the shining skull, and then he slowly fell backward, like a great rag doll, over the battlements and out of sight. (HBP pg 596/556)

Why would this application of the Avada Kedavra be so different from every other time we've seen it?

Perhaps his spell was different because even though those were the words Snape said, he didn't perform the killing curse at all. Remember all the importance this book gave to "nonverbal" spells? Perhaps Snape said Avada Kedavra, but the curse he was really thinking, the nonverbal one, was a different curse, one that only made it appear that Dumbledore was dead.

The possibilty that Snape said one curse and cast another nonverbally might not be as likely if we couldn't recognize the curse that was really cast, but we can! Thanks to Brave Sir Blogger and Lindsay for bringing these passages to my attention:

Both of them swung their wands above their heads and pointed them at their opponent; Snape cried: "Expelliarmus!" There was a dazzling flash of scarlet light and Lockhart was blasted off his feet: He flew backward off the stage, smashed into the wall, and slid down it to sprawl on the floor. (CoS pg 190/142)

Harry made up his mind in a split second. Before Snape could take even one step toward him, he had raised his wand. "Expelliarmus!" he yelled -- except that his wasn't the only voice that shouted. There was a blast that made the door rattle on its hinges; Snape was lifted off his feet and slammed into the wall, then slid down it to the floor, a trickle of blood oozing from under his hair. He had been knocked out. Harry looked around. Both Ron and Hermione had tried to disarm Snape at exactly the same moment. (PoA pg 361/265)

In these examples from Chamber of Secrets and Prisoner of Azkaban, different wizards are issuing the Expelliarmus spell with the results being described almost exactly the same way, the victim being voilenty blasted up and backwards. This also happens to be similar to the description of when Dumbledore is attacked up in the tower. So, even though Snape said Avada Kedavra, the evidence from the books shows that the nonverbal curse he cast was Expelliarmus!

Even the title of the chapter this all takes place in is suspicous, "The Lightning-Struck Tower". Even though this is the name of the ominous tarot card that Trelawney was worried about back on page 543/507 in chapter 25, is it possible that J.K. is hinting here that the spell was not Avada Kedavra, but some other spell that had lightening-type effects instead?

But there is even another clue that Dumbledore's flying off the tower that night was a prearranged ruse between himself and Snape. Back in chapter nineteen, when Harry orders Dobby and Kreacher to follow Malfoy around in an effort to figure out what he was up to, Dobby replies:

"Yes, Harry Potter!" said Dobby at once, his great eyes shining with excitement. "And if Dobby does it wrong, Dobby will throw himself off the topmost tower, Harry Potter!" (HBP pg 422/395)

Notice, Dobby says "throw himself", not something like "you can throw me". Also, Dobby specifically mentions "the topmost tower", exactly the place where the "death" of Dumbledore later occurs in the same way.

Now, even though we know Dobby gets around and probably hears a lot of things he shouldn't in the castle, we're not suggesting Dumbledore could so easily slip up and let Dobby be privy to such a secret plan. But what we are suggesting is that J.K. is not above using something Dobby says to plant a clue for us that later on in the story it would be Dumbledore, himself, who planned the whole death cherade, and caused himself, or arranged for himself, to be thrown from the top of the tallest Astronomy tower.

5. Don't Point That At Me Unless You Mean It

Several times in the course of the Harry Potter books, J.K. has told us that the Avada Kedavra is not a curse you can make lightly.

In Goblet of Fire, the fake Mad Eye Moody tells his DADA class:

"Avada Kedavra's a curse that needs a powerful bit of magic behind it -- you could all get your wands out now and point them at me and say the words, and I doubt I'd get so much as a nosebleed." (GoF pg 217/192)

And in Order of the Phoenix, we learn more about Avada Kedavra when Harry tries to curse Bellatrix:

Hatred rose in Harry such that he had never known before. He flung himself out from behind the fountain and bellowed "Crucio!" Bellatrix screamed. The spell had knocked her off her feet, but she did not writhe or shriek with pain as Neville had -- she was already on her feet again ... "Never used an Unforgivable Curse before, have you, boy?" she yelled. "You need to mean them, Potter! You need to really want to cause pain -- to enjoy it ..." (OotP pg 810/715)

If Snape was really working on Dumbledore's orders to make it look to the world as if Snape had killed him, even if he had used the real Avada Kedavra, if he had not really meant it, if he really didn't want to kill Dumbledore, then isn't it possible that the curse didn't kill Dumbledore, but only injured him badly?

6. Fawkes' Lament

Directly after Dumbledore's murder, as everyone assembled in the hospital wing, Harry tells everyone Snape did it. He stops, overcome with emotion, and right then, something very important happens:

Madame Pomfrey burst into tears. Nobody paid her any attention except Ginny, who whispered, "Shh! Listen!" (HBP pg 614/573)

Everyone was there, Ron and his parents, Hermione, Lupin, Tonks. Yet it is Madame Pomfrey who J.K. tells us is struck by this turn of events. Continuing:

Gulping, Madame Pomfrey pressed her fingers to her mouth, her eyes wide. Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before; a stricken lament of terrible beauty. (HBP pg 614/573)

J.K. spends another paragraph on how the phoenix song echos their grief, but while doing so mentions:

Harry felt, as he had felt about the Phoenix song before, that the music was inside him, not without ... How long they stood there, listening, he did not know, nor why it seemed to ease their pain a little to listen... (HBP pg 615/573)

And then McGonagall enters, changes the subject, and the phoenix song is forgotten.

Many minutes later, after all the retelling of the night's affair, J.K. mentions Fawkes is still at it:

They all fell silent. Fawkes's lament was still echoing over the dark grounds outside. (HBP pg 621/579)

...but Harry's thoughts move right on to other things, like wondering where Dumbledore's body is now. Many minutes later still, as this meeting breaks up and Harry is following McGonagall up to what is now her office, J.K. interjects:

The corridors outside were deserted and the only sound was the distant phoenix song. (HBP pg 625/583)

Whatever it was he was doing, Fawkes was working hard at it, and not giving up. Yet we are supposed to believe, as in the title of this chapter, "The Phoenix Lament", that it is only Dumbledore's pet echoing everyone's grief?

Are we so easily to forget that phoenix tears have powerful healing powers?

Significantly, it is the healer, Madame Pomfrey, who is brought to tears by the phoenix song. She knows the healing power of the phoenix well. She gulps with eyes wide. She recognizes something special is going on.

Also, J.K. goes out of her way to point out the healing qualities of the phoenix song, Harry feels it inside, the way he did last time he was healed by one, and most importantly, it seems to ease their pain!

From these passages, it certainly seems that J.K. wants us to know that Fawkes is doing some healing!

Perhaps Fawkes is not powerful enough to bring someone back from the Avada Kedavra, but what if Dumbledore was not really hit by an Avada Kedrava, and instead hit with half a spell, or a spell to make him appear dead (as explained in the clues above)?

7. Anyone Seen Dumbledore's Wand Lately?

At the very begining of the big scene between Draco, Dumbledore and Snape, one of the first things that happens is Dumbledore loses his wand:

The door burst open and somebody erupted through it and shouted, "Expelliarmus!" ... by the light of the Mark, he saw Dumbledore's wand flying in an arc over the edge of the ramparts ... (HBP pg 584/545)

But where is his wand now?

We know a wizard's wand is very important to him, and a wand that belonged to a wizard as powerful as Dumbledore would be a very important item to know the whereabouts of, something you wouldn't want falling into the wrong hands.

This clue might not mean as much if we didn't know the customs of wizards in such occasions, but we do! Five chapters ago, when Harry and Slughorn were consoling Hagrid over the death of Aragog, Hagrid and Sluggy sang a song about a wizard called Odo, and Sluggy sang the lines:

And Odo the hero, they bore him back home,
To the place that he'd known as a lad,
They laid him to rest with his hat inside out
And his wand snapped in two, which was sad. (HBP pg 488/456)

But as far as we know, they didn't snap Dumbledore's wand in two. After the scene at the top of the tower, Dumbledore's wand is simply never mentioned again.

Is it possible that Dumbledore's wand is missing because Dumbledore still has his wand, still needs his wand, because he's not dead?

Or if he is dead, was the plan very carefully crafted so that Dumbledore's wand would be hidden away for safe-keeping, preventing the Death Eaters, who's arrival on the grounds of the school was imminent, from getting their hands on it?

8. No Body, No Crime

The last time we really saw Dumbledore's body was when Harry is kneeling over it shortly after he has been killed by Snape the previous day.

Now, we see Hagrid carry the body of Dumbledore into his funeral, but it's covered:

Hagrid was walking slowly up the aisle between the chairs. He was crying quite silently, his face gleaming with tears, and in his arms, wrapped in purple velvet spangled with golden stars, was what Harry knew to be Dumbledore's body. (HBP pg 643/599)

We never really see Dumbledore's body at the funeral. How do we know it was there at all?

9. Caution: Dumbledore Is Flammable

As part of the funeral service, a fire ignites around the body of Dumbledore, and when it subsides, his body is encased in a white marble tomb.

Again, we don't see the body, either before or after the fire.

But more importantly, no one lights the fire, it just happens on its own. A body bursting into flame on its own. That sound like anyone we know?

We've seen Fawkes do that several times now in the course of the Harry Potter books, and you know what happens to Fawkes after every time it does.

Earlier in the book, we saw several instances where Dumbledore uses fire, an important aspect of the symbol of a phoenix. When he first meets Tom Riddle in the orphanage, to demonstrate he's a wizard, he sets Tom's wardrobe on fire.

And he conjures fire to protect Harry and himself from the infiri in the cave.

And after all this, in case we didn't get the allusions to a phoenix, J.K. reminds us just in case:

White smoke spiraled into the air and made strange shapes: Harry thought, for one heart-stopping moment, that he saw a phoenix fly joyfully into the blue, but next second the fire had vanished. (HBP pg 645/601)

All these clues seem to suggest that if Dumbledore really did die, he has the ability to be reborn out of the ashes of his death, either under his own power, or with the help of the healing powers of Fawkes.

Besides, even if Dumbledore's body was there when it erupted into flame, we know that doesn't mean anything to a wizard!

Non-magic people (more commonly known as muggles) were particularly afraid of magic in medieval times, but not very good at recognizing it. On the rare occasion that they did catch a real witch or wizard, burning had no effect whatsoever. The witch or wizard would perform a basic Flame Freezing Charm and then pretend to shriek with pain while enjoying a gentle, tickling sensation. (PoA pg 2/7)

So, who do they think they were fooling at the funeral?

If you believe that Snape is acting on Dumbledore's orders to kill him (or possibly just make it look like he killed him, although he'd probably still be hurting him), then Snape's demeanor and Dumbledore's final words take on a whole new meaning.

...somebody else had spoken Snape's name, quite softly. "Severus..." The sound frightened Harry beyond anything he had experienced all evening. For the first time, Dumbledore was pleading. Snape said nothing, but walked forward and pushed Malfoy roughly out of the way. ... Snape gazed for a moment at Dumbledore, and there was revulsion and hatred etched in the harsh lines of his face. "Severus... Please..." (HBP pg 595/556)

In that passage the reader is supposed to believe that Snape hates Dumbledore and feels revulsion for him.

But to help us understand the real meaning of Snape's feelings of revulsion and hatred, J.K. used almost the exact same words for what Harry was feeling just one chapter previous:

"You...you can't stop, Professor," said Harry. "You've got to keep drinking, remember? You told me you had to keep drinking. Here..." Hating himself, repulsed by what he was doing, Harry forced the goblet back toward Dumbledore's mouth ... (HBP pg 571/534)

Even though Snape was to kill Dumbledore on Dumbledore's orders, it must have been something that was still really emotional and difficult for Snape to do, exactly as it was for Harry to make Dumbledore drink the potion.

The feeling of revulsion on Snape's face was not for Dumbledore, but the act he knew he had to commit. The hatred was not for Dumbledore, but for what Dumbledore was making him do.

And when Dumbledore said, "Severus... Please..." he wasn't begging "please don't". What he was really saying was, "Severus, please kill me, as you promised you would."

Way back at the end the first book, when Dumbledore confirms for Harry that Flamel would die now that the philosopher's stone was gone, Dumbledore explained:

"To one as young as you, I'm sure it seems incredible, but to Nicolas and Perenelle, it really is like going to bed after a very, very long day. After all, to the well-organised mind, death is but the next great adventure." (SS/PS pg 297/215)

Does that sound to you like someone who would beg to save his own life?

Dumbledore's Horcrux
How does a wizard learn about the existence and properties of Horcruxes? Who knows what they are, how to make them, what they can do? What wizard would make a Horcrux? Under what circumstances? And for what reasons? And why are they so evil? Hermione is working very hard to answer these questions. As Hogwarts virtual library search-engine, she is coming up empty - no answers to these questions can be found at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry so far.

Fifty years ago, Tom Riddle, while still a student at Hogwarts, somehow learned of Horcruxes. How he did this is something of a mystery since Tom has no wizarding family, no connection with anyone in the wizarding world outside of Hogwarts (that we know of), and attended a school where Horcruxes were a banned subject, where Dumbledore at the time was, as Slughorn explains, (HBP, US version p. 499) "particularly fierce about it..." ("it" being the ban on Horcruxes). And yet by the end of Book 6, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, we believe that Tom Riddle-turned-Voldemort had probably divided his soul into seven parts and created six external Horcruxes in his lifetime.
How do we learn of the Voldemort Horcruxes?
Through Dumbledore's suspicions.

Dumbledore is the only wizard who suspected that Voldemort created Horcruxes. When the Avada Kedavra curse Voldemort used against Harry backfired and diminished Voldemort, Dumbledore suspected that Voldemort had made a Horcrux. Then Tom Riddle's diary came along in Chamber of Secrets and Dumbledore's theory gained some support. No mere memory, the being in Tom Riddle's diary began to come to life and behave like a Horcrux, restoring Voldemort to life.

But then Tom Riddle's diary was destroyed when Harry stabbed it with the poison basilisk fang, and Voldemort did not perish. So here Dumbledore must have begun to realize that either he was wrong about his theory that Voldemort had made a Horcrux or that there may have been more than one Horcrux. What an astounding idea this must have seemed! And in Book 6 when Harry returned from the graveyard and reported what Voldemort told his followers at the end of Goblet of Fire about having gone further than any other wizard, Dumbledore believed that this information provided support for the possibility that Voldemort may have been using Horcruxes, but had been using more than one of them. Remember, it wasn't until Harry finagled that bit of memory from Slughorn (in HBP) that we got any confirmation at all of Dumbledore's Horcrux theory. Slughorn's memory shows the first hard evidence linking Voldemort with the Horcruxes.

But Dumbledore suspected the possibility of a Horcrux from the beginning. Why? Why suspect a Horcrux? Was it because he was familiar with the concept? Was it because he had already created one?

Dumbledore create something as evil as a Horcrux! Impossible!

Or is it? (Hmmm, perhaps I should write for the Quibbler...)

Here's a thought: perhaps it is not the Horcrux itself that is evil, but killing someone in order to create a Horcrux that is evil. Slughorn explains that the Horcrux is created: "By committing murder. Killing rips the soul apart. The wizard intent upon creating a Horcrux would use this damage to his advantage: He would encase the torn portion (of his soul in a Horcrux)" (HBP p. 498) .

Killing rips the soul apart. This is important: Killing rips the soul apart -- whether one makes a Horcrux or not. The evil act is in the killing. If a wizard had killed another person, regardless of his intent, the ripping of the soul would have occurred.

There are three possible forms of intent involved in the act of killing. The first is malice, the desire to inflict harm and affect a killing. We usually associate this with anger or hatred and Muggle and Wizard societies both punish this type of act. The second form of intent is self-preservation. Here the person who affects the murder is justified in doing so because he, his family, his friends or even his society as a whole are in danger from the person who is about to be killed. In this case the killer is not punished by society. And the third form of intent is actually lack-of-intent. This is the case when a person or persons are killed inadvertently, or accidentally. In the Muggle world this is sometimes punished, sometimes not. If the killer's lack of due diligence caused the death(s) -- as in drunken driving -- we tend to punish it, even though it was not intended by the killer. If the killer shows due diligence -- and someone simply jumps out onto the road in front of a moving car -- we tend not to punish the killer.

I do believe that killing under any of the three forms of intent causes damage to the soul. Maybe there is no blame to be laid, no guilt to be levied, but there would still be great anguish to the soul of someone who realizes he has taken a life. Whether through malice, self-defense, or completely by accident, the person who kills is diminished in some way by having taken a life. I believe this is the damage to the soul. It is not a punishment by society, but a natural result of destroying life. And I think this damage occurs no matter how good or evil the person who affects the killing is as a person. In fact, it is easy to imagine that the anguish of a good person who is pressed to kill is far greater than that of someone who feels no loss at ending someone's life.

The damage to the soul would be irreversible. And here a wizard could use this damage "to his advantage (by) encasing the torn portion in a Horcrux." Creating a Horcrux, in and of itself, is not evil. It is the murder that precedes the Horcrux creation that causes the soul to be ripped apart that is evil. Killing is, as Slughorn explains, "the supreme act of evil." The evil is done. And then you have a damaged soul. Encasing your now-damaged soul in a Horcrux neither extends nor eradicates the evil born of the murder. A Horcrux is simply a container for that already-damaged portion of the soul.

We know, from Albus Dumbledore's chocolate frog card (Philosopher's Stone, UK edition, p. 77), that "Dumbledore is particularly famous for his defeat of the dark wizard Grindlewald in 1945, for the discovery of the twelve uses of dragon's blood and his work on alchemy with his partner Nicolas Flamel." So, in 1945 Dumbledore defeated the evil wizard Grindlewald. How might he have "defeated" Grindlewald? Did he need to kill him as perhaps Harry needs to kill Voldemort? There is no mention of Grindlewald in Azkaban. I suspect that the defeat did involve a killing.

If Dumbledore had killed Grindlewald, then perhaps Dumbledore might have created a Horcrux. Not necessarily an evil Horcrux, but the product of opportunity rather than the product of an evil act. Dumbledore is a very intelligent, logical being. If the killing of Grindlewald was necessary, then the possibility of creating a Horcrux might be a logical follow-up. And if the killing was a positive event eliminating evil from the wizard world, then perhaps Dumbledore's Horcrux -- though borne through dark magic -- would not be an evil thing. Not creating a Horcrux would not have changed his need to kill Grindlewald.

Why would Dumbledore even consider making a Horcrux? In Book 1, McGonagall has a conversation with Dumbledore in which she points out that he knows all of the Dark Magic, but that she believes he chooses not to use any of it. Perhaps he has had good reason to use Dark Magic for some positive purposes. And remember, Dumbledore's old friend, Nicholas Flamel, sought eternal life with the Philosopher's Stone. Why is it hard to suppose that Dumbledore may have sought eternal life as well? A different means to that end, yes, but still with a goal to the same end.

But would Dumbledore have committed this supreme act of evil? If Dumbledore has committed a killing, he would have to have a damaged soul. The damage done by killing another is absolute. Does Dumbledore have a damaged soul? Having a soul like Harry's that is "untarnished and whole" (p. 511) is certainly wonderful but may not be something that every witch and wizard can claim. Dumbledore is 150 years old and has been battling evil in the wizarding world for quite some time. Is it possible that his soul is still untarnished and whole? That he has never harmed another witch or wizard, evil or otherwise? I think not. Only youth has such purity and innocence. As people go through life, wizards and Muggles alike, we are confronted with difficult choices and obstacles, points in our lives at which there is no easy answer.

So let's assume Dumbledore did need to finish Grindlewald to remove his evil influence from the world. What Horcrux would hold Dumbledore's damaged bit of soul? Gryffindor's Sword perhaps? One of the many silvery spindly objects in his office? I don't think so. I think Dumbledore's Horcrux is the phoenix Fawkes.

Isn't it most interesting that Dumbledore suspected that Nagini was one of Voldemort's Horcruxes? We know Voldemort to be a friendless person who collects inanimate artifacts and objects for his Horcrux keepers. Why would Dumbledore think that Voldemort might choose Nagini to guard a portion of his soul? Why suppose that a wizard would choose any animal as a Horcrux, unless of course you had already done the very same thing yourself.

There is no comparison between Nagini and Fawkes as viable soul-keepers, or Horcruxes. Nagini is a snake, a magical creature with questionable moral values. Fawkes is a magical creature known for extreme loyalty, the ability to heal wounds and transport very heavy loads for long distances. Fawkes seems to be all positive attributes. And even more importantly: Nagini can be destroyed. Fawkes, a phoenix, cannot be killed. He will continue to rise anew from the ashes, reborn to continue on. Fawkes is an excellent choice for a Horcrux. Fawkes will live forever.

All right, so let's say we allow the assumption that Dumbledore has made a Horcrux. And let's go on to the next step and allow that Harry discovers it. This is, by the way, quite necessary since the Harry Potter stories are all told from Harry's point of view and we would certainly not know of the Horcrux unless Harry knew of it as well. How would this Horcrux work itself into the story in Book 7? What would be the value and difficulty of discovering that Dumbledore had created a Horcrux?

The value is easy to spot. There is then the possibility that Dumbledore isn't gone for good. He may have died physically, but he could be reborn through the use of his Horcrux. This is, for everyone except Voldemort and the Death Eaters, a very uplifting possibility. Dumbledore's abrupt departure from the quest to destroy Voldemort at the close of Book 6 is quite disturbing. It is as though, after so many, many years of his research and discovery to identify Voldemort's weakness(es), Dumbledore simply vanishes.

What if Harry is not the only one to learn of Fawkes's role as a Horcrux? Then what? Who else might be trying to recover Fawkes at the same time as Harry?

The most likely wizard to join Harry in the pursuit of Fawkes would be Severus Snape. Somehow, Snape will know that Fawkes was Dumbledore's Horcrux and will be trying to get Fawkes. Harry will discover this. Not knowing whether Snape is good or evil, we won't know whether Snape should get Fawkes or not. Hermione will tell us we should trust Dumbledore's faith in Snape; Harry will be convinced Snape is up to something evil. It is possible Snape is supposed to acquire Fawkes, that Dumbledore wants him to, and that Snape was aware -- at the moment of the Avada Kedavra curse on top of the tower -- that there would be further steps to having Dumbledore return to make sure that Voldemort was vanquished.

Furthermore: How would Dumbledore have protected Fawkes from Voldemort? Surely Dumbledore would have foreseen that someone on the Dark Side might have discovered Fawkes's value as a Horcrux. How might he have provided protection for Fawkes? Perhaps in was in the same way he protected the Philosopher's Stone. Remember the protection Dumbledore placed on the Stone in the Mirror of Erised? "You see, only one who wanted to find the Stone -- find it, but not use it -- would be able to get it..." (PS p.217) Perhaps Harry will need to want to recover Fawkes, but not activate Dumbledore's Horcrux in order to gain Fawkes.

Maybe when Harry discovers that Dumbledore has a Horcrux -- Fawkes -- a choice has to be made about bringing Dumbledore back or going on without Dumbledore's help. What if the choice was there and Harry has to decide whether to rely on Dumbledore's help or to move on as a now-adult wizard (Harry comes of age at the start of Book 7 on July 31) and accept his role as The Chosen One? A choice between what is right and what is easy, perhaps.

Somehow, I have found it hard to believe that Dumbledore would so easily leave the battle with Voldemort. Dumbledore has spent many years researching Voldemort's background and looking for ways to finish him. Why would he bow out so easily, before he could see his work brought to closure? Completed by Harry, yes, but brought to closure.

And the wording of Professor Trelawney's prophecy is curious, as well, "one cannot live while the other survives..." If Harry, himself, does not directly cause Voldemort's death, Harry will retain his pure, untarnished, virgin soul. He will remain in many ways childlike and pure. Is this desirable? Or does Harry need to pass through a gauntlet of sorts to become an adult? Perhaps Harry must kill Voldemort to become an adult. Perhaps this is a painful process that must be done. Harry came awfully close to damaging his soul with the Septumsempra curse on Malfoy. It is not impossible to believe that Harry will have to suffer the consequences of his anger and hatred toward Voldemort (and maybe Snape). As a minor (under the age of 17) Harry still has a pure untarnished soul. But is it realistic to expect that this will continue throughout his adult life? I think not. Life is not that simple.

Meanwhile, there is one other important player in this search: Hagrid. Rubeus Hagrid, Keeper of Keys and Grounds at Hogwarts, is our resident expert in Magical Creatures. That's Fawkes, a magical creature. Hagrid will know how to recover and capture Fawkes (just like Hagrid knew how to lull Fluffy to sleep) because Dumbledore would have told him. Dumbledore tells Professor McGonagall in Book 1, "I would trust Hagrid with my life," and he has. Dumbledore has shared with Hagrid Fawkes's secret.

So while we know there will be a search going on for Voldemort's Horcruxes in Book 7, we may learn that a parallel search will commence for Dumbledore's Horcrux, Fawkes.

I really do believe that Dumbledore does have a Horcrux. The Horcrux is Fawkes, his soul mate, literally. And Hagrid is the Secret keeper of the Horcrux secret.

Hagrid will likely die protecting this information. And what does that mean? Hopefully we'll find out soon, because J.K. chose this topic as one of the three FAQ questions she would like to answer on her web site: What happens to a Secret after the Secret keeper dies? I don't think this is of terribly vital importance to 12 Grimmauld Place, but I do think it will matter even more when it comes to losing Hagrid.

We learn of the existence of Horcruxes out of the blue in Book 6 of the seven book series. No mention of them in any of the thousands of pages preceding Half-Blood Prince in Books 1 through 5. Will we learn in Book 7 that there is another Horcrux? Dumbledore's Horcrux?

Jan-Marie Spanard is a visual artist who tends to notice many of the small details in light, color, language, people's expressions, coins in the parking lot, and life in general. She says she is over-educated (with two masters degrees and a PhD) and has read each of J.K.'s Harry books at least a half-dozen times (so far).
J.K.'s surprising revelation about Dumbledore

by David Haber
Just a little over a year ago, on August 2, 2006, J.K. Rowling made a statement at her reading in New York City, at Radio City Music Hall, that was big news and related directly to what we talk about on this web site. She said Dumbledore was dead, and even mentioned this web site (which used to be called dumbledoreisnotdead.com) by name. Well, tonight she's done it again.

This evening, again in New York City, this time at Carnegie Hall, J.K. Rowling dropped a bombshell on the Harry Potter fan community. When asked by a fan if Dumbledore ever loved anyone, J.K. Rowling replied Dumbledore was gay. Reports from the scene say a hush fell over the crowd and then it broke out in applause, to which J.K. replied that if she had known that would be the response, she would've revealed her thoughts on Dumbledore earlier.

She went on to say that while she was reading Steve Kloves' script for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, she came across a passage in which Dumbledore was reminiscing about past loves, and she corrected it by crossing it out and scrawling "Dumbledore is gay" in the margin.

I, personally, was very surprised by this news. Not that I thought there couldn't be gay Wizards and not that I'd have anything against them if they were. (Lockhart is obviously gay, for example, and I think fans assume the whole Wizarding world knows it, and doesn't care... And he's one of our favorite characters.) It's just that I never for minute suspected it about Dumbledore. But, looking back, should we have seen clues that this was true?

We learned a great amount about Dumbledore in the final book that we never knew before, especially about his past. J.K. herself tonight said Dumbledore's being gay explains why he was originally taken in by Grindelwald, that it started off as an infatuation. Looking back at the book, the clues hinting at this are all there. In the excerpt from The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore, Rita Skeeter says Bathilda Bagshot says, about the young Grindelwald:

"He seemed a charming boy to me," babbles Bathilda, "whatever he became later. Naturally I introduced him to poor Albus, who was missing the company of lads his own age. The boys took to each other at once." (DH pg 356/291)

Also in her book, Skeeter says Grindelwald was expelled from Durmstrang at sixteen years old, and was forced to leave the country, "traveling abroad for some months". We know Durmstrang isn't shy about teaching the dark arts. Is it possible more than experimenting with dark magic caused Grindelwald's falling out with Durmstrang?

And then later, Bathilda says something funny about Ariana's funeral:

"Albus was beside himself at Ariana's death ... A shame Gellert could not have stayed for the funeral... He would have been a comfort to Albus, at least..." (DH pg 358/292)

Was Grindelwald gay too? Or was he just good at stringing people along, telling them what they wanted to hear, for his own purposes?

And in Deathly Hallows, one of the earliest things we learn about Dumbledore's past is told to us by Elphias Doge, in his eulogy of Dumbledore, when he says that after graduation from Hogwarts, he and Dumbledore had, in his words, "intended to take the then-traditional tour of the world together". In my first readings of the book, I took that phrasing to mean that it was traditional for Wizards to do that together. But is it possible that it was the trip itself that was the tradition, and that there was more than just a friendship between Elphias and Dumbledore?

Were there other, earlier signs in the books that Dumbledore was gay? In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, after Sirius has died, Dumbledore tells Harry,

"You fought a man's fight. I was ... prouder of you than can say." (OotP pg 837/738)

"I cared about you too much. I cared more for your happiness than knowing the truth." (OotP pg 838/739)

"I never dreamed that I would have such a person on my hands." (OotP pg 839/739)

I'm not suggesting that anything ever happened between Dumbledore and Harry, nor am I suggesting Dumbledore ever wanted something to happen. But in the same way it sparked his relationship with Grindelwald, can we not say that his homosexuality allowed Dumbledore to feel a special bond between Harry and himself, a bond normally reserved for a boy and a relative, like a father or older brother?

And what of Dumbledore's relationships with other men? We know Snape is heterosexual because of his undying feelings for Lily. But could Dumbledore's platonic affection for Snape help to explain why he trusted Snape when everyone else thought he was a fool to do so?

Ironically, of all the characters in the Harry Potter story, it was Harry himself who was the brunt of the rumors of being gay, as he had grown up "in the closet". Also, had he not gone to Hogwarts, the Dursleys told him he would attend Stonewall High. The Stonewall, a bar in New York City that was raided by the police in 1969, is an icon in the history of gay rights. But ever since the first book, the Harry Potter story has gained a great number of fans who are gay, because of how the story deals with Harry's feeling "different", and never understanding "what was wrong with him", until he finally got to find out that there were others like him, when he went to Hogwarts.

J.K.'s admission about Dumbledore tonight opens up a whole part of the Wizarding world that we previously could only guess about. Can we infer from the way Lockhart was treated that the Wizarding world was generally permissive of homosexuality? If so, why did Dumbledore hide that he was gay? Does the fact that Dumbledore was gay help to explain how and why he did what he did? Were you surprised by J.K.'s announcement? From what we were told in the book, should we have been able to guess that Dumbledore was gay?

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