Dumbledore is Not Dead

The Champion of Commoners, Mudbloods and Muggles... Lives!!

I have quite a convincing theory that Dumbledore is not dead (quite unlike the one about his Horcrux!)
I am presuming that Dumbledore set up an elaborate plan with Snape about the proceedings.
Now here’s what I think...

• Snape was approached by Narcissa and Bellatrix and either Snape earlier knew of Malfoy plan or he got it out of Narcissa by his excellent legilemency.

• Snape made the Unbreakable Vow. During the vow, not once it has been said that Snape is vowing to help Draco to kill Dumbledore. He only says that he will help Draco to complete the assigned task. This task could have been fixing the vanishing cabinet, or at least Snape would have thought the same while making the vow. After all, it is magic (seems to me quite like law!)
• Also, given Dumbledore unflinching faith in Snape, it can be that Snape earlier made an Unbreakable Vow with Dumbledore to remain loyal to him. Hence, when he made the vow with Narcissa, it was cancelled as it contradicted the vow made earlier with old D.
  

• Snape and Dumbledore talked about it and made the plan on he to stage Dumbledore’s death. Now we shift to the chapter- The Lightning Struck Tower.

• Harry and Dumbledore flew to the tower and were confronted by Draco. Before that, Dumbledore freezed Harry.

• The Death eaters arrived, shortly followed by Snape. On Dumbledore’s pleading, Snape muttered Avada Kedavra, the killing curse.

• Remember in OOTP, when Harry said the Cruciatus Curse on Bellatrix. Bellatrix was unharmed, and the curse didn’t work as Harry didn’t mean to cause severe pain, even though Harry was feeling so intense hatred for Bellatrix. That’s the case with Unforgivable curses, you have to really mean them.

• Similarly, Snape (in the text, it is written that his face had hatred and revulsion, that means he was revulsed by what he was about to do) muttered Avada Kedavra on Dumbledore without meaning it. Hence, instead of just life being snuffed out and Dumbledore’s body limping lifelessly, Dumbledore was blasted out of the tower.

• Now Harry was de-freezed, and he presumed that the spell was lifted because Dumbledore was dead. But is it that necessary? It could have simply that Snape saw Harry in spite of his Invisibility cloak (Dumbledore could do so in PS, he could have taught Snape that in HBP) or Dumbledore could have told Snape earlier that Harry would be there. Then Snape de-freezed Harry to complete the effect.

• Now comes the most interesting part. In the Chapter, The Phoenix Lament, Fawkes is crying while Harry is in the hospital, in the corridor, outside the school and back again. So, Fawkes is crying and crying and crying; that is, he is simply shedding many, many tears. And we all know that Phoenix tears have great healing powers. Now, who could Fawkes possibly be healing so intensely?? Dumbledore, of course!!

• Now in the last Chapter, The White Tomb, Dumbledore’s tomb suddenly erupts in flames on its own and his tomb is encased.

• Flames… the 1st, yes 1st page of POA talks about a basic Flame Freezing charm, in which a wizard could show that he was being burnt but meanwhile enjoy a tickling sensation. What I am implying is that Dumbledore used it to simply show that he was dead. Also, false flames seem to be Dumbledore’s specialty. Remember, in HBP, how he scared the wits out of young Tom by falsely burning his wardrobe. He really wished that he could do it again to discipline the big V. Well, I think he did.


• Again, there is Harry witnessing the phoenix-flying-out-of-the-tomb illusion. I think that this is a probability that Dumbledore is an Animagus in the form of a phoenix! He magically burned himself and then flew out of the tomb as a phoenix, and was not spotted by anyone except Harry because of the high flames.
• Also, Fawkes the phoenix, as we go to know in Ootp, can apparate\dissaprate from Hogwarts(this was how old D escaped Fudge). It can be that Fawkes apparated to take Dumbledore with him. We know that teleportation ofa phoenix causes flames to erupt, but the flames could easily be disguised among the flames already erupting arounf Dumbledore's tomb.
  

• Another queation- Where would Dumbledore go? Obviously, there are many places, but the most likely place to me is Godric's Hollow. The Dumbledore-Gryffindor connection is sjown strongly in the books, and it can be that Godric's Hollow (which got a special mention at he end of HBP) could be a residential headquarter for Dumbledore.
  

So that’s what I think was old D’s plan to fool Voldemort and give him over-confidence. Also, he had taught Harry everything and now Harry would get the chance to become self-dependent and use his powers instead of relying on Dumbledore.

Ollivander-Loyal or Betrayal?

The Intriguing Wand-maker...

One of the loose threads of the HBP was the fate of the renowned Diagon Alley wand-maker, Ollivander. His only appearances being in the PS and GOF, he may be considered an unimportant character by many but I personally feel that he may have a significant role to play in future, and my belief was restored when he mysteriously deserted his ancient wand shop in Diagon Alley (since 382 BC!) and vanished. Was he abducted or killed by the Death Eaters or he joined them on his own? Or did he go into hiding and now is living as a nomad (like Slughorn)?

One may ask- Why is he so important anyway, what purpose could the Dark Lord use him for? The answer is crystal clear...

How did Harry Potter survive the duel with the big V, whose favorite one liner was Avada Kedavra, with just Expelliarmus, a simple disarming spell? Yes, we all know that it was Priori Incantatem, a phenomenon by which two wands having the same core became interconnected and caused one of them to show the effects of previous spells. In Harry’s and Voldemort’s case, Voldemort’s wand was affected and the ghosts appearing out of it later distracted Voldemort, giving Harry the precious time to run. (The movie shows the scene in perfect detail.)

Hence, what saved Harry’s life was this connecting of wands, and furthermore luck that it was Voldemort’s wand that was affected.

Could be it that Ollivander knowingly, on Dumbledore’s orders, made another wand with the feather of Fawkes the phoenix for Harry, and later sold it to him. Dumbledore must have realized that this would save Harry’s life and told Ollivander to start the work on this second wand having the same core. After all, ten years is quite enough for all this, after which Harry arrived at Diagon Alley and unknowingly bought the wand.

Big V’s work with Ollivander is clear now- make him a Priori-Incantatem-Proof wand, that is a wand which resists Priori Incantatem, or if that is not possible, somehow make Harry’s wand be the affected one, so now big V would not be disturbed the ghosts of the people he killed.

If Ollivander resisted Voldemort and was killed, or he is on the run, Harry should try to contact him and use Priori Incantatem to the fullest effect as he did in GOF. Or if Ollivander has joined Voldemort and is improvising Voldemort’s wand, then Harry needs to be really trained and cautious, because he may not be so lucky next time when he duels with the Big V. Perhaps the duel between Harry and Voldemort in the 7^th book will not end in the same way as it did in GOF, and it all depends on the loyalty of Ollivander.

Magical Creature Legacy

The Magical Creature Legacy

Mythical Creatures have always played a very important part in the Harry Potter storyline. They possess different attributes and more importantly, different owners.

The most ancient one may be the venomous and evil Basilisk, the serpent king left by the sinister Hogwarts founder Salazar Slytherin, in order to equip his true heir to clean Hogwarts of muggle-borns (We all know that).

But do you think the brave Godric Gryffindor would die leaving Hogwarts unprotected, when he knew that the Chamber of Secrets existed and could be opened to unthinkable results even many centuries later??

Yes, he must also have left his own magical beast, which could help his true heir to defeat Slytherin’s true heir and monster...

And the creature is undoubtedly Fawkes the phoenix, an immensely powerful and long living creature who could only be domesticated by the most noble and powerful wizards, and he was indeed the pet of the wizard qualifying all the expectations of Gryffindor, Albus Dumbledore. Fawkes must be of the time of Gryffindor who entrusted it with the responsibility of eliminating, or helping to eliminate, the Slytherin monster.

The way Slytherin made the litmus test of controlling his monster as being Parselmouth, the same way Gryffindor’s test would be- yes, the ruby encrusted Gryffindor’s sword.

I was curious that where would Fawkes be all these centuries and under whose care? And if indeed my theory about it being Gryffindor’s equivalent of Slytherin Monster, Gryffindor was quite shrewd in making his creature less conspicuous in myths and legends, unlike the much talked about and fanciful Chamber of Secrets.

This way, the heir of Slytherin would have been completely off guard (like Riddle was in the COS, when Fawkes ruined his complete plan) and didn’t prepare himself for the Gryffindor creature, which was immune to the Basilisk’s powers and could thwart it.

Well, I also wonder, we know and talked in detail about fantastic beasts of Gryffindor and Slytherin, but what about the powerful Rowena Ravenclaw (a talking eagle, perhaps) and Helga Hufflepuff (would she leave behind a fire breathing badger)??

Plus: Liked the pictures of the basilisk and the phoenix? Take the Fantastic Beasts quiz given in the Links section (given in the sidebar) and discover which Magical Creature do you relate with. Mail me your results!

Fawkes - Dumbledore's Horcrux

Dumbledore’s Horcrux

I know that there will be some initial skepticism, but I think that Dumbledore has a Horcrux, in none another that Fawkes the phoenix. He himself said that there can be Horcruxes in living beings, and pointed towards the unnatural behavior of Nagini, Voldemort’s snake, and also saying that he had extraordinary control over her, even for a parselmouth. Now let me point you towards the unnatural behavior of Fawkes, which may point towards its connection with Dumbledore...

• Harry is almost in Death’s mouth (like always) in the Chamber of secrets, cornered by the Heir of Slytherin and the sinister monster of Slytherin, the Basilisk, which would have killed Harry by only looking into his eyeballs.

But who saved our hero? Yes, Fawkes. Even though that Dumbledore was not there in Hogwarts, Fawkes went underground and saved Harry, and even carried Gryffindor’s sword with him, which Harry eventually used to slay the snake.

• Fawkes saved Harry without any ado in COS, but why didn’t he save his master Dumbledore in HBP? Only because Dumbledore told him not to do so as his death was the part of a plan he formed with Snape. Would a normal pet understand such complexity? I doubt it.

• Who are the main villain and Hero? Of course, Lord Voldemort and Harry Potter. What do their wands have in common, which subsequently led to Priory Incantatem and helped Harry save his life in the GOF? Of course, the core, Phoenix feather. Whose feather? You got it- our very own, Fawkes (Surely, not by extreme coincidence).

• A phoenix is technically immortal, as it is reborn from its ashes, and would have been a really good choice for something that is used to make you immortal.

• Voldemort created a Horcrux in a snake because he loved snakes. Similarly, Dumbledore (the opposite of Voldemort), adored phoenixes (he named his group- The Order of the Phoenix), and had one as his faithful pet.

• Dumbledore placed faith above everything else, he even trusted Snape, a death-eater, only because of faith. And what did he tell Harry about phoenixes? That they made highly faithful pets. If he could entrust his soul to a death eater only because of faith, why not a part of it to someone who he knew was eternally faithful.

• I said a lot about Dumbledore’s fondness about Fawkes, but wasn’t it equally reciprocated by the phoenix towards his master. After Dumbledore was murdered, The Phoenix Lamented and then flew away.

• Read HBP, Pg 601, last paragraph. It says-

  Harry thought, for one Heart stopping moment, that he saw a phoenix fly joyfully into the blue, but next second the fire had vanished. Ring any bells??

I know that Dumbledore is the epitome of goodness, but how did he gain so much knowledge about Horcruxes, which are the darkest magical inventions, considered unmentionable even by the standards of Magick Moste Evile. Surely some experiments may have helped…

Conclusively, I would like to say that I made this guess only because I couldn’t stand to see Dumbledore die.

Also, thanks to Rohit Rajaram for the inspiration.

Weird rumour- Harry is Horcrux!

Harry Potter- Voldemort's Horcrux
No Way!

I recently got the weirdest rumour that Harry Potter is one of Voldemort's horcruxes, and he would have to kill himself at the end.
After mulling over it, I came to the conclusion that I disagree!

Firstly, the reason Harry Potter got the scar is that Voldemort attacked him. And hence HArry could not be a Horcrux Because of the simple reason that Voldemort wouldn't scheme with his followers and keep trying to destroy his own Horcrux!
And Voldemort tries his best to kill off Harry Potter whenever they confront each other (take their meeting in the ministry of magic in OOTP), and do you think that Big V is so foolish that he will himself try and order his followers to destroy his own Horcrux ??!! Come on, he even duelled with Harry in GOF, and did his best to kill him.
All his death eaters keep trying to kill Harry, and get quite close to it. Would they dare touch a piece of their master's soul?

But, nobody can tell what JKR can do. Then also, it will be highly illogical if such a thing is there.

The Goblet of Fire Movie- My thoughts

The Goblet of Fire- Movie

Well, like all of you, I also checked out the movie.
My initial reaction was (especially on seeing the graphics and special effects), Wow! But more commendable than the graphics was the way the movie unfolded, deleting unnecessary elements from the book and even adding some scenes from own imagination. Overall, it was a fantastic movie. I would give it **** (4 stars) out of five.

I just loved the new scenes. The first one in which Snape hits Ron on the back of the head for talking in the class (How come Ron, Harry, Fread, George are in the same class??), and then pulls back his cuffs and thrusts down both Harry's and Ron's heads for talking was really funny.
The other one, in which Ron waltzes with none other than Mcgonagall, was simply hilarious.

Thanks God they deleted the SPEW part. Well, I believe that the elf part was a little bit overplayed in the 4th book, but it was heavily underplayed in the movie (Not a single elf was shown in the film!) They made Neville give the Gillyweed. The way he said "I have killed Harry Potter" was very funny.

What with the director and the Black Family??!!
Firstly, all we get of good old Sirius is a few splinters in the fire. Poor man, he will be gone in the next movie and all he gets is to be a part a of special effect.
Secondly, Narcissa Malfoy was also not shown (I didn't see her) in the Quidditch world cup. Isn't she necessary in the future (Who makes the Unbreakable Bow with Snape?)
Lastly, the scene with Bellatrix Lestrange was not there. It was quite smart to fuse both the scenes of the pensieve into a single one, in which no one knows the reality of Crouch junior and is revealed by Karkaroff (his cage was quite nice). But Bellatrix is also an important character. After all, she is the one who kills Sirius.

Now why was Dumbledore just bubbling with excitement in the movie?? Did you see the way he was shaking Harry, asking whether he had put his name in the Goblet of Fire or not.
I always pictured Dumbledore as a majestic and imposing personality who looked into the situation calmly and almost magisterially. This new and strange behavior of Dumbledore was quite a shock.

The scene of Voldemort's resurrection was simply spellbinding!! The way the dark mark formed in the sky with sturm clouds and Death Eaters (Why so few??) appeared out of his mouth in smoky apparitions was really cool. Ralph Fiennes is just the right man for the big V.
The graveyard was quite spooky and cool, with all the fog and shadows. Also, the statues of the undertaker and the angel gave quite an effect.

Lastly, the girls looked quite good. But why weren't the Veela shown in the world cup, when they showed the leprauchauns (Partiality!), I was quite expecting them.

Great movie, wasn't it?!

R.A.B. and the Locket

Regulus Black and the Locket

The intriguing letters R.A.B. (not intriguing anymore, as we all know they refer to Regulus Black) might prove Sirius (may god bless his mysteriously departed soul) seriously wrong. He told Harry that Regulus was quite an unimportant person according to Voldemort’s standards and probably wasn’t even killed personally by him, but he was the one who became the Bond managed to steal his well-guarded Horcrux.

Well, it all quite fits. Regulus, following Black family tradition, joined the Dark Lord, but like Sirius, his moral vein got hurt when he saw the real evil of Voldemort. He must have done something evil and would be hit with a wave of remorse (like Snape felt after giving the contents of the prophecy to Voldemort), and then decided torectify his mistake by making Voldemort mortal by destroying his horcrux. He must have thought that the locket was the only horcrux, as he wrote in his note that destroying it would make Voldemort mortal.
Voldemort would not have known it (as Dumbledore told Harry that he would not know when his Horcrux is destroyed), and thought Regulus's rebellion as petty.

Something interesting: Read OOTP, Pg 108, 4th paragraph. a line says: a heavy locket that none of them could open. Now don't you wonder what this locket could be ??? yes, its must be the same horcvrux and its no coincidence that it was found in The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black, in Regulus's residence.

The Sixth Book: Alternate titles

Well, I surely loved loved the sixth book for giving an insight into the life of the most mysterious character of the book, Lord Voldemort. Rowling devoted volumes of pages to Harry Potter but ppreviously ignored the strange life and origins of the Dark Lord.
I have suggested a few alternate titles for the sixth book:

• Me, Myself and My Horcruxes- A biography of Lord Voldemort
• How to be Charming and do Evil- by Lord Voldemort
  
• I am the Dude- by Severus Snape
• Really Detailed Guide to Good Potions
• Enjoying School Life!- By Harry, Ginny,Dean,Ron,Lavender

Introduction to this Blog

Introduction

I’ve started this blog to express my thoughts and opinions about the world of Harry Potter.

Anyone who has read Harry Potter would know that a Pensieve is an object used to see thoughts. In the same way, you can read my thoughts through this bllock and I can read yours through your comments!

I will use this blog to give my speculations about the seventh Harry potter book, the characters and the movies. They may be a little unimaginable, unusual or simply weird! But nevertheless, the five books the sixth book (HBP), are so brimming with events and previously undisclosed information that it’s hard to stop yourself from forming opinions about what J.K. Rowling will do next.

A difficult question for many Potter readers will be: Which is your favorite Harry Potter book? But for me, it is quite easy- The Half-Blood Prince. The way the biography of Lord Voldemort, the Dark Lord and the most mysterious character in the book, unfolds is simply great. How the handsome and charming lad T.M. Riddle slowly and secretly develops his powers under his teachers’ eyes, and then emerges as the most frightening and terrible dark Lord in the history of the wizarding world, closer to immortality than any other sorcerer, shows the intricacies of the magical world.

All of us were greatly shocked when Dumbledore was murdered by Severus Snape, whom he trusted as a faithful ally, and who according to him, saved his life when he returned to Hogwarts greatly injured by destroying the ring Horcrux.

But as I tried to fathom this merciless cruelty, I realized some hidden meanings. Didn’t Hagrid tell Harry that he overheard Snape and Dumbledore arguing about something? And how can one expect the great Dumbledore to beg for his life (please, Severus! The only hypothesis is that Dumbledore and Snape had already formulated this plan about Snape becoming Voldemort’s ally, and since Snape would be unwilling to kill his mentor, Dumbledore pleaded to him to perform this cruel act to prove his loyalty to Voldemort and come in his inner circle.

Now you can explore this blog to enter the pensieve and see some of my thoughts,. Awaiting your feedback and ideas!