[innerSpaceman]

Fvck Spoilers. The movie's been out 2 weeks.

To address Alex's point .... in the book, it's even more strongly hinted that Gandalf, er, Dumbledore's death is a movie-death fake. Yet, his death comes of shocking and sad in print.

Next book spoiler:

Spoiler:

As it turns out, once we get to the next book, Dumbledore never re-appears, so the hints he wasn't dead were really a cheat ... a good one though, since the obvious thing is to hint he's not dead and have him turn up alive because everyone just loves him so darn much.

Interestingly, Seriously Black's death in the prior book was also very indefinite, with the possibility of him coming back to life ... but that never happened either. I don't credit J.K. Rowling for much, but I like these deaths that left people wondering and like it even more that she did not pander to bringing the beloved characters back to life - when technically she could have.