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.