How did you react?

[snowcat]

How did you react when you read that Albus died?
I personally was camping and sat in a trailer.
I sobbed so hard, and when I stopped sobbing I cryed my heart out. My familly was watching TV and told me to stop the racket. My mum just snickered. My uncle teased me. I went to a long very brisk walk.
To clear my head.

Love,

Elisabet xx

[TartanPhoenix]

I'll admit it, I got a little teary eyed. Lucily, there was no one around to laugh at me.

[Catwoman99]

I screamed out, "Noooooo!!". I woke the baby up doing that. After that I silently cried as I read through the "Phoenix Lament" chapter and the funeral.

- April :-)

[pinkie]

I kind of knew it was going to happen (I am good with seeing bad things coming...), so I held a box of Kleenex close and I cried - one of the pages in my book is a mess, after crying my heart out, I called my best friend - a notorious fan as well and we cried together over the phone. Later, when my fiancée came home, I cried against his shoulder.

Yes, I know... I a a real drama queen. And to think that I didn't cry when my old greatgrandmother died...

[amandahleigh]

I think I was on chapter 24 when my friend Iris called me up and said, "Oh my God, are you done reading it yet?" and I said, "No, I had to bring my brother to WalMart, and I just got back two chapters ago. I'm alsmost done."

She was crying and she said, "You are going to HATE JK for this! For two things, actually! HATE her! (pause) I have to go."

Then I was like, oh no.

But I still didn't really believe it would happen.

When I got to chapter 26, I started t o cry. I read the chapter twice, then continued on, still crying though the rest of the book. I finished, called back Iris, cried some more, hung up, called out of work, re-read the last few chapters, and cried some more.

I re-read half the book yesterday and cried again. I still don't like to think it's true.

[Jessabelle]

I was just pissed off because it seemed like such a crappy ending to Dumbledore's life. She had him get all sick and violently ill, then she had him pleading with Severus and then she had him proved wrong because the wizard that he thought had reformed and that he spent a whole bunch of years defending turns around and kills him. It was pathetic. I did not like the sixth book at all, it was way to predictable.

[childminerva]

I read the entire book on the way home from PA. My sister and I got it at midnight then read it in the car. She's younger and reads a lot slower so I got to the death scene long before she did. I sobbed and sobbed, I stopped and laughed once when I read about Filtch and Pince standing together. When I finished the book I looked through all my cds until I found one that was completely devoid of any sad or romantic songs that might cause me to cry again. My mom just stared at me and my sis made fun of me, but she called me the next day when she finished the book and she was crying too.
At the Potter party I went to to get the book I had discussed this possible ending with someone but that didn't make it any easier to read it. My sociology teacher has announced twice that she thinks he's still alive...I don't believe it. I told her she's delusional.
*sigh* it still hurts.

[ismaco]

I just couldn't believe it... I shut the book, threw it to my bed and sobbed histerically pacing around in my bedroom cursing JK Rowling. It took me like an hour to semi calm down and take the courage to read again.
I think I was really (REALLY... I mean, Thinking of Albus meant starting to cry) upset for about a week... My mother even teased me saying I was going to need therapy for a while to get over it!
I agree with you childminerva... It still hurts! And even if I don't want to believe it... I'm sure he's dead!

*Still mourning Albus loss*

[ginny]

I acutally wasn't that shocked. I thought that he would go someday....even though I didn't want him to!
I didn't sob, but I cried for like 5 minutes....then I stopped. And kept reading. Cuz it was veeery interesting. And I didn't actually feel any hatred toward JK Rowling, just towards Snape. But I dunno 'bout him...

[Kierah]

I already knew, but I cried so hard that I got a horrible headache and spent the rest of the night curled up with Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (the book where we can see the implied affair between AD and MM when they find Colin Creevey) and cried some more. D:

[nemi]

I was on a 30-hour long coach journey on the way home from a school trip, and all my friends around me (we were all reading the book, we bought it in the town square in Vienna) were teasing me as I was the only one crying. I wasn't making a noise; in fact I'd gone from chattering about the book to silently crying, and everyone started laughing at me.

"But there'll be no shippy moments now!" I sniffed, and they laughed even more. I was devastated and was really down about it. My friends who hadn't been on the trip laughed even more than that when we got back home. I whinged to my mother about it all for about half an hour while she sat there bored, and despite hating Harry Potter and not really listening, she frowned halfway through my rant and said, "But isn't Dumbledore supposed to be invincible?"

Then I got angry. Dumbledore *was* supposed to be invincible. Why had JK just killed him off like that? It made him seem like a weakling all of a sudden, when the last time I'd checked he'd been the greatest wizard of all time. It really annoyed me, and I started to think, "There must be reasons." And so, now I've theorised it, and thoroughly believe it was done for a reason, and thoroughly believe that, through shippy moments and subtle hints, Albus and Minerva were a couple. And I look forward to the seventh book to prove me wrong or right. If it proves me right, I'll rejoice; if it proves me wrong I'll write AUs... it's a win-win situation, but I can't wait to see what's said about Dumbledore next. ^^

[EloquentPhoenix]

I was sat there by myself, absolutely knackered from little sleep and too much reading, I was almost in tears in the cave when i thought he would die, then it happened and I was in shock. I'm not quite sure whemn the tears actually came, though the beginning of The Phoenix Lament is when I had tears rolling down my face. I cried from there to end, then went to post on the forum I belong to with my friends that I'd finished it finished it first and was still crying. I think perhaps I'm still in denial.

[beMMADfabulous]

Well, I had read on the internet that Dumbledore was going to be murdered by Snape, so I was expecting it. Going into reading the book, I never felt that Dumbledore was really dead. I'm not sure how I feel about that now. I didn't expect to cry at all because, as I have said, I knew it was going to happen. However, the tears started pouring when I read that part when Minerva was in Dumbledore's office (now hers) and there was a new picture of him on the wall and he was sleeping. It mentioned something about Minerva on the verge of tears or she could hardly stand or something. I couldn't hold back crying after reading that.

[mcgonagallrocks]

I cried throught the whole end of the book, cursed JK a bit, and came up for way for Dumbldore to come back in my head.

[beMMADfabulous]

It seems that, if Dumbledore is truly dead, JK Rowling let the greatest wizard of all time die with no fight at all. It made him appear almost weak (okay, no, not weak, because he was talking very bravely and calmly to Malfoy).

.... one of the reasons I still have doubt that Dumbledore is dead.

[beMMADfabulous]

nerva said:

"Dumbledore would have been happier than anybody to think that there was a little more love in the world."
I had never expected something as intimate as this from her. And this made me much more sad.
For me this is a confession of a WOMAN. Not a teacher, but a very much woman.

Oh, definatly! I loved that quote from her. It was as if she was speaking more as a partner, a wife even, than just as a teacher.

[TabbyForever]

I'd got the book and not intending to read it till the next morning so i could read it in the day started flicking through the chapters, when i saw the titles of the last couple of chapters i knew it was Dumbledore she'd killed...then had a quick txt covo with Lies to confirm it and started reading the book after that.

I started Crying during the bit in the cave cause i thought that was where it was going to happen and couldn't bear the thought of him being in so much pain and cried right till the funeral. I also ranted with Lies and Meredith about the whole unfairness of the situation.

I found that the 6th book put me right off reading and writing anything to do with HP fanfiction and I distanced myself from this board and refused to read the 6th book again or go see the movie when its out. Its only fairly recently i've got back into reading and writing again so i hope that its worth coming back to the fandom...JKR had better reward us!!

I'm still not sure if i believe he's really dead...i really really hope he's not and that theres a master plan behind it.

J. xx (Disalusioned fan!!)

[Apocalypticat]

I bought the book and read it one sitting. The first clench of foreboding came when Albus's hand was mentioned. The cave scene was horrible but I was glued into it as if in a nightmare. When the death-scene came I had to read it twice for it to make myself comprehend it.

I hated it. I hated the way my favourite character suffered and then died. I've since convinced myself that Albus - the man who declared death was the next great adventure - was not begging for his life but either begging Severus to continue with the plan or asking him not to turn back on the light and damage his soul. The whole thing was painful to me. I'm praying there's a master-plan in the background that either meant that Dumbledore had to fake his death or did have to die - but voluntarily. A lot of that scene seemed... unreal to me.

After closing the book I burst into tears. The next few days were awful. I couldn't bring myself to look at the book, let alone read any of it. I was really depressed and quiet and told nobody what was wrong; I had to go paint-balling with my friends afterwards and I had to try and pretend everything was okay.

I felt very stupid, I have to say. I've only cried over books once or twice before, and never over a fictional character dying. Unfortunately book 6 came during my Dumbledore obsession. I suddenly realised how those poor Sirius fans felt.

If he had to die, I hoped he'd go down in a better way than that!

[Tabby67]

*sighs as silent tears make way down face*

I stayed up 48 hours to read the book last summer. I started crying during 'The Cave' and literally broke down when Severus, one of my faves, killed our Bumblebee. I sobbed so hard from that point on. 'The Pheonix's Lament', and 'The White Tomb' left me very depressed. I cried for almost two days straight. No joke, I literally cried for almost 48 hours.

I couldn't stop thinking about it, then crying for a week, and couldn't stop shaking for almost two. Yes, I am a very.......well, I'm something.

I reread it during a major test in March. It took me 6 hours. I really don't know how on Earth I did that, but I started crying again, and my administraitor asked me what was wrong. I looked at her, pointed at the book, and just cried.

When the film comes out, I'm going to be so upset and depressed. I'm DEFINATELY bringing tissues with me when I see it.

I honestly don't believe it was him. I just...no. It wasn't dignified or honourable in any way. That's just not how you end that man's life. I don't care if it's 'so no one can write about it later', you just don't do that!!

Ok, I think I'm done with my rant for now.

~Branda~

*crying again*

[emeraldeyes]

I opened to the WAY!wrong page when I was in the teen-chapters, and saw the part about him being weak... And cried right there, having NO iDEA what was happening. Then I cried a little occasionally as I read.. And all-out sobbed, door locked, nose dripping sobbing, as I read the final, oh... Five chapters? It was insane.. And I've read a few good fics with there being a reason.. And so I don't think he's dead.

Stubbornly,
Kate

[minniebumblebee]

When I read the chapter where he died, I half expected Minerva to run into the tower... But then I started to cry and sob, my sister asked me what was wrong and I was muttering/ wailing in japanese...
Still a bit broken,
Riku

[beMMADfabulous]

I expected Minerva to react a lot more... painfully than she did. It was so sad when she started blaming herself.

[gahhMinerva]

I knew going into the book that Albus was going to die (since I was intelligent enough to ignore a spoiler warning in a fanfic summary). The instant I learned of his death, before I had even purchased the book, I felt very hollow and shocked. Just the realization that he would die... it was something else.

Throughout the book, I kept thinking that this would be when he died. I just felt this feeling of dread the whole time. But every time he was still alive, I would feel this astonishing wave of relief, and I got all hopeful that he wasn't really going to die. And then died, finally, after fearing it for hundreds of pages. I was still in shock about it, even though I knew it would happen. I didn't cry that night, though. Only later, when I'd be writing or reading fanfiction, or talking about the book. I still get all teary-eyed when thinking about it. Especially when I think about Minerva and how she'll have to cope and stuff.

And I was angry at JK for just killing him off like that, by Snape! It made Albus look stupid for trusting him and weak for dying so easily.

However, if ADMM is confirmed in book 7, then I will not care at all what else happens in the book. Voldemort could die from an allergic reaction to Chocolate Frogs while Harry is knitting him a scarf, and I won't care that that is a totally random end to the book.

[nicolerose]

I cryed for like 5 hours.. then when I stoped i went back and reread it. then I cryed. and so on and so on. But when Harry was making Dumbledore drink the poison I was balling. I kept on screaming at the book. My mom can in thinking that I was freaking out about something 'seriouse' as she called it. Then I yelled at her saying that what just happened was seriouse. then she left. but now I keep rereading it, just in case it changes... even though I know that my book wont just all of a sudden be like, ok he didnt die. But hey, it is magic right? and now when I think about it i cry...

[ravenhaired]

My friend told me Dumbledore died, as he had already flipped to the back to find out. My reaction was one of "You're a dirty liar, Dumbledore doesn't die..." And then shock.

[nicolerose]

oh sad
i would have cryed if someone told me! but then again I hurd i threw the grape vien.

[beMMADfabulous]

gahhminerva said:

I knew going into the book that Albus was going to die (since I was intelligent enough to ignore a spoiler warning in a fanfic summary). The instant I learned of his death, before I had even purchased the book, I felt very hollow and shocked. Just the realization that he would die... it was something else.

Throughout the book, I kept thinking that this would be when he died. I just felt this feeling of dread the whole time. But every time he was still alive, I would feel this astonishing wave of relief, and I got all hopeful that he wasn't really going to die. And then died, finally, after fearing it for hundreds of pages. I was still in shock about it, even though I knew it would happen. I didn't cry that night, though. Only later, when I'd be writing or reading fanfiction, or talking about the book. I still get all teary-eyed when thinking about it. Especially when I think about Minerva and how she'll have to cope and stuff.

And I was angry at JK for just killing him off like that, by Snape! It made Albus look stupid for trusting him and weak for dying so easily.

However, if ADMM is confirmed in book 7, then I will not care at all what else happens in the book. Voldemort could die from an allergic reaction to Chocolate Frogs while Harry is knitting him a scarf, and I won't care that that is a totally random end to the book.

I agree with all of that. I read the spoilers before the book too. I really need to STOP READING SPOILERS! I planning on not reading them at all next year when (hopefully!) the book comes out because I really want to experience this last book for myself.

[nicolerose]

I hate spoilers. But I cant help reading them eather. If the book doesnt come out within the next year I wont be able to not read them tho.

[mcgonagallrocks]

I was on the bus with a bunch of other cheerleaders at the time. They are so mean. They were laughing. I just about followed Hermione's lead and punched this once girl in the face when she called Minerva and Albus senile (sp)

[beMMADfabulous]

mcgonagallrocks said:

I was on the bus with a bunch of other cheerleaders at the time. They are so mean. They were laughing. I just about followed Hermione's lead and punched this once girl in the face when she called Minerva and Albus senile (sp)

Aww, that's sad!