[DisneyFan25863]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Spoiler:

As for Dumbledore being really dead...I think he is really dead. It took me a few books to accept that Harry's parents weren't coming back from the dead, and Rowling has always said that death is death. But he may show up as an Obi-Wan to Harry's Luke, somehow. Perhaps just through saved up Penseive memories. There's no way he's just going to go out and start finding Horcruxes, never mind destroying them, which we have no clue how to do.

Spoiler:

I was thinking it was going to be his portrait....the pensive was a little overused in this book, IMO, and something fresh should be introduced.