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You may be right, WB. There certainly did seem to be a lot of Phoenix allusions in HBP. I think though, that if he does come back it will be in some otherworldly yoda-esque fashion to help Harry in a time of need. Perhaps he will come back as a phoenix? Or in a similar way to what happened when Harry fought Voldemort in GoF.

Might I take this opportunity to say that it annoys me to no end that in the beginning of PoA the movie, Harry uses Lumos out of school. And Sirius the dog growls at him.

Also, rereading the last three books really drove home what a travesty the Dumbledore from GoF movie was. I hope they do better with OotP.