Dumbledore: back (in some form) in Book 7
UPDATE: Scans from these articles can be seen here, thanks to Jenna!

The Times Online and The Observer have both released new interviews with the Harry Potter actor.

Of particular interest to book fans, the latter website provides an interesting experience Dan had with Jo during one of her OOTP set visits:
"Jo came down to the set at one point and I said, 'Oh hello, why are you here today?' And she said, 'Oh I just needed a break from the book - Dumbledore's giving me a lot of trouble.' And I said, 'But isn't he dead?' And she said, 'Well, yeah, but it's more complex...' I was like, [briskly] 'OK, I'm not gonna ask anything else!'"
The interview also includes talk on Equus and Dan's personal life. The Times article finds Dan discussing what he wants to happen to Harry at the end of Deathly Hallows:
"I want him to die because I have a melodramatic yearning for a death scene. And the prophecy in the fifth book says only one of Harry and Voldemort can live. Or is it that neither can live while the other survives? Oh God, what is it? The fans will kill me if I've got that wrong."
Thanks to DanRadcliffe.com for the links!
Posted by Andrew on Feb 10th | 144 Comments
Visitor Comments
Posted by caggerz Feb 10th 2007

Yay For Dan!


Posted by __IndianSpice Feb 10th 2007

I'm so excited for Dan! w00t! Unfortunately, he's always going to be Harry Potter to me :(


Posted by jenny0491 Feb 10th 2007

hm...i wonder what dumbledore has to do with the 7th book...


Posted by dragons_melody Feb 10th 2007

oh dan we wont kill u we just be very very mad ( pout)


Posted by Asad Feb 10th 2007

Hmm, Dumbeldore is giving her a lot of trouble? COOL! I wonder what that could mean.


Posted by Gotpotter269 Feb 10th 2007

AWESOME, MORE ABOUT DEMBLEDORE!!!!!!


Posted by Brooke1125 Feb 10th 2007

kewl.


Posted by thenishbish Feb 10th 2007

Hahah. This is the least amount of comments I've seen on a MuggleNet page. I guess someone just posted this in the past couple hours/minutes or something. So...wow. Psh, JKR has got to know that Dan will tell people if he's interviewed..and she usually watches what she says. So maybe this is her way to give us a little...teeny...look into DH. Haha, Dan. Gosh. Learn your prophesy.


Posted by hpfan20 Feb 10th 2007

top 10? anyhoo, cool! hehe I guess we'll have to wait to find out what JKR was talking about! =D


Posted by dragons_melody Feb 10th 2007

wait isnt dumbledore DEAD


Posted by mastermike Feb 10th 2007

Pensieve / Clues he left for Harry / Aberforth :)


Posted by priorincantato Feb 10th 2007

aww dan i love him


Posted by harrypotteraddict Feb 10th 2007

this makes me think that dumbles isnt dead after all... i know jo said he was dead, but now i have a teeny weeny glimmer of hope... :(


Posted by Annie Feb 10th 2007

Awww, I love Dan. He always sounds so cute in his interviews.


Posted by Boo_On_You Feb 10th 2007

lmao i agree with annie! he is quite adorable in interviews... He flips excitedly through the pile. 'What's great is occasionally I'll mention a band in an interview - like, I mentioned Arcade Fire in an interview with Rolling Stone last year. Lo and behold, a month later a crate of Arcade Fire stuff turned up!' he beams. I liked that part.


Posted by Quidditchgirl24 Feb 11th 2007

zzzzz......oh excuse me, we have a release date for the 7th Harry Potter book, knows one cares anymore of what you have to say. Well, maybe the 11 year olds and the soccermoms (40 and up)and then you better make sure you take off you shirt to get their attention. Maybe in a couple of years when all the Harry Potter movie are done being filmed, I will see you on a trip to London working at McDonalds.


Posted by dragons_melody Feb 11th 2007

oh well , i think dan is cute and im not 11 or a soccermom (40 and up)


Posted by viki_hp_nerd Feb 11th 2007

oh nice...maybe the pensieve memories of dumbledore is keeping her busy! i love the hp news that are back in action!


Posted by viki_hp_nerd Feb 11th 2007

oh btw...dan sucks on saying harry should die because he shouldnt! just because he wants to play a death scene that doesnt require our HARRY to die! go play in some other movie that he will die in...geez...but luckily jo already finished the book so he cant change her opinion anyway.


Posted by nigalef Feb 11th 2007

perhaps she's struggling with how to integrate his portrait? or maybe dumbledore had the two-way mirror (I know it's a long shot, but Harry missed out on Sirius having it)


Posted by AccioSeverus Feb 11th 2007

I EFFING LOVE DANIEL RADLIFFE LOLOL his comments are so funny...he does seem like a cool person to just sit down have a drink with, i've always thought that..


Posted by dementor Feb 11th 2007

yes!! dumbledore will be back! yaaay! hmm i wonder if it is through the portrait *thinks*


Posted by Ithilwen Feb 11th 2007

I knew we would be seeing more of Dumbledore...I don't think he'll be technically alive but he'll be there. He's just too much fun :-P


Posted by Loony_llama_Lovegood Feb 11th 2007

I love to read Dan's interveiws. Sometimes you start to forget that he's really just a normal teenager like you and I. He seems like a person that would actually understand why a teenager can sit down and keep up [intellectually] with an adult.-- And on the book news, I don't think that means he's back. It could mean anything. Maybe characters greiving over his death is getting in the way of things that need to be done? Maybe He left more information than they could handle? Maybe too little? It could be anything...-- "Doesn't that make your **** shrink?" xDD


Posted by James_Padfoot Feb 11th 2007

He's pretty funny.... A little. Anyway, I figure it would be the potrait of the headmaster. It's an imprint of life, so I can see where it may give Jo problems.


Posted by Tajjy Feb 11th 2007

Yup- I'm pretty sure she's just having trouble writing him coping with Dumbledore- or aren't we supposed to learn more about his past? Yup bingo that's it... I've always thought he gave the best intreviews of the three...


Posted by James_Padfoot Feb 11th 2007

By the way, Mr. Radcliffe can kindly go jump off the cliff into his own melodramatic death as another character, not OUR Harry. Kthxbai.


Posted by Carly87 Feb 11th 2007

Hee! So excited for TDH!!! And when are people on here going to grow up and stop writing "First??" or "Top Ten!?". Cripes, if you're first then you won't need to write it!!


Posted by hyogoetophile Feb 11th 2007

DD gave Jo trouble? It couldn't have just been his portrait--he must be pretty intricately involved. I've said it since HBP and I'll say it again, Dumbledore is still alive.


Posted by peevesrocks Feb 11th 2007

yay to dumbledor! although most realize that he would be back by way of harry's memories, he's got to deal with the death and dumbledor was pretty much the voldy expert. but as to harry dieing, that's so sad, it may happen, but i don't have to like it! ;-)


Posted by Quiscalus Feb 11th 2007

Well, didn't we already know we would be seeing Dumbledore again? I thought we did... but this is cool. I wonder how he's giving her trouble. :) But Dumbledore IS dead, whoever was saying otherwise.


Posted by Naush Feb 11th 2007

Isn't that kinda like a spolier.... dan?


Posted by MagdaleneRose Feb 11th 2007

WOW!!! She's having trouble with Dumbledore!?! that's like great news! (i think) *thinks out loud* if she's having trouble with dumbledore, then that means that he has a role in DH. but as she HAS confirmed that he's dead so.... either he's 1.) a talking portrait 2.) a memory 3.) a ghost 4.) or something totally different! soo..... the news is still so WOW!


Posted by Sveedish Feb 11th 2007

Oh yay, Dumbledore somes back (in some form) :D I was so upset when he died...


Posted by Vicktoria Feb 11th 2007

Wants Harry to die??!!


Posted by hpsawesome Feb 11th 2007

dan is thinking long and hard about it....lol. I love this guy he's really funny, I wish this was avaliable on video.


Posted by Roonil Feb 11th 2007

Yesssss. I knew we'd see more of dumbley... :)


Posted by annesmith Feb 11th 2007

ok, what you think about this.... i NEVER believe dumbledore was dead... why you think they made a big deal outta doing spells sliently... what happened was.. snape did the killing curse but it didnt work cos he didnt mean it. at the same time dumbledore unfroze harry and appeared dead...OR if dumbledore IS really dead then he could come back as a ghost and help Harry anyway... remember a while ago in the early books harry talkd to headless nick?? and he told harry you could choose to be a ghost or to go on .... hmmmmm.....


Posted by RKRK1313 Feb 11th 2007

wait, can you guys read? DUMBLEDORE IS STILL DEAD. she was just merely commenting on the fact that she is writing scenes involving him - and that it is complex because he is dead but is in DH in some other form (example: portrait in his office). i seriously dont undertsand what it is with some of you... do you just skim the article for what you want and discard the information you don't like?


Posted by hp_bookworm Feb 11th 2007

Dan rocks but I don't want harry to die. and yay dumbledore will be back in some form in deathly hallows. all hope is not lost.


Posted by annesmith Feb 11th 2007

she would say that he is dead even if he isnt....wouldnt she? he wouldnt want to ruin the book for us....


Posted by ninja58 Feb 11th 2007

Yay! I knew Dumby'd be back. He'll probably appear in a protrait or somthing. Or maybe sh's talking about Aberforh Dumbledore.


Posted by Quiscalus Feb 11th 2007

First of all, I would like to point out (again) to everyone who is saying Dumbledore might not be dead... he is. Jo would NOT lie to us. Second of all, didn't Jo say we would learn more about Dumbledore's childhood or history or something like that? That would be interesting to learn about.


Posted by AliceFO Feb 11th 2007

I'm sorry but Dumbledore IS dead. She would not say that when it isn't true. She was too direct. I'm thinking we will see Dumbledore either talking through his portrait OR in a memory. He's is NOT alive.


Posted by ChoChang Feb 11th 2007

I just love reading Dan's interviews.


Posted by theoldone_two Feb 11th 2007

im glad dumbledores not gone forever, i thought he might make another appearence in one form or another. i hope harry doesnt die!


Posted by Doxybiter_DH_ Feb 11th 2007

More complex? I love it when it's more complex!:) But we have to keep in mind that she said to us that he won't pull a Gandalf. So... he won't be back in person, I think. Not corporeal:p Right now, I think of it as other secrets Dumbledore had and other things we still need to find out (gleam of triumph etc) that will be explained in the book. Pensieve-Dumbledore? Portrait-Dumbledore (maybe she exaggerated in the MN&TLC interview?;p) Ghost-Dumbledore is unlikely... Echo/Priori Incantatem-Dumbledore? (I think that one's pretty likely) er... what else have we got...? Prophecy-Dumbledore? (veeeeery unlikely) Letters, stories of other people... Oh, I like this statement!


Posted by american_allie Feb 11th 2007

YAY!!! For Dumbledore! Complex is good! Really good! So yay for dan on that note... BOO DAN!! No dying! dying is bad! Haven't we suffered enough???


Posted by skates Feb 11th 2007

YEs! out of the trio, Dan's interviews are definetely the best because he reveals alot about himself and is just hilarious. I'm not sure if this was the same interview I just read at SS, but here are some of my "points" I got from the interview I just read, hopefully it was this one... Anyway... Dan states::: That he's had two serious girlfriends but does "not have one at the moment" JKR is coming to see Equus! that should set tongues to wagging..... It was Kenneth Branagh, in COs, that first told Dan he should consider doing the part of Alan in Equus, and even set up some workshops for him. Dan also states that he did so much better in school once he started doing Harry Potter because of the one on one tutoring on set daily. (which I can totally back because I'm homeschooled:) Hope this little comment doesn't bother anyone, sorry I just had to enclude it because it was just so funny lol. I guess DAn's read and seen some of the reactions of his nude pics and the fact that he's so fit because he states that: "I haven't been taking loads of steroids and stuff! that would actually be the worst thing I could do actually. Don't they make your **** shrink??"


Posted by PotterManic Feb 11th 2007

This doesn't necessarily mean he's back. When Jo says she's having trouble with Dumbledore she could mean trouble with something he did or said






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