My-Immortal said:
I thought the portraits in Dumbledore's office were of past headmasters and they did communicate to Dumbledore from time to time while Harry was in the office....(I could be wrong). And even if the portraits can't truly communicate anything 'new'...perhaps what Harry would need to learn from Dumbledore would be something from the past...?
They do talk. However you can think of them as echos of those headmasters. They would capture the essence of who that headmaster was, his intellect, the way he thought things through, so the portrait would communicate to Dumbledore in that kind of a way. But as I mentioned, it's only an echo of the person, a memory of someone who has passed on.
It's been awhile since I've read all the books, I'd like to read them again sometime to refresh myself with them, especially the last two books.
My-Immortal said:
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if Harry does die at the end destroying V. in order to save everyone else. She's been setting him up as a longer all along (especially in the last book) - and his truly happiest moments seem to be when he's with his mother and father. In death, he would be reunited with them.
A "longer?" What in the world is a longer?
That ending sounds way too much like Lord of the Rings to me, which I think there are already way too many similiarities between Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings.
I'd like to see the series end with Harry still living and getting back together with Ginny which I've thought since the beginning that they would be the right match because if Harry married Ginny, then he and Ron would literally become family, and if Ron married Herimone, she too would literally be family as well.
I think it would be a more positive message for her to write him getting on with his life.
I do so wish she would write the story of his parents years in school, but Rowling has said she will not do this. Bummer.
