Is Dumbledore good or bad?
(Seventh HP book spoilers) In the last book Dumbledore tells Snape that he knew Harry was supposed to die from the very beginning, and that's why he protected him, so he could die in the right time. Do you think that makes Dumbledore a bad person? and when Dumbledore talks to Harry after he 'dies' in the forbidden forest, it's all in Harry's head so does it mean that Dumbledore really was a bad person and the all of the things that he explained to Harry were just Harry's imagination and Dumbledore really didn't think of that when he was still alive?
Why was Harry Potter able to talk to Dumbledore but not to Sirius Black after their death?
Elisabeth: In the chapter of kings cross, are they behind the veil or in some world between the real world and the veil? J.K. Rowling: You can make up your own mind on this, but I think that Harry entered a kind of limbo between life and death.There can be multiple inferences to what exactly happened after he "died". Rowling makes it seem that there's this "limbo" which does exist, but she doesn't clarify whether or not it's metaphorical or not. Whether or not it's accessible to everyone in a sense or not.I choose to believe that it's an actual place where Harry's mind and soul went when he "died".Harry had suffered enough. He had done most of his part. But he needed answers. He needed to understand and make sense of it.Who could answer that? Dumbledore of course.The person, as per Harry, who knew and understood it better than anyone. The person who would help him make sense of it. He didn't really need anyone to tell him how proud they were of him, or tell him that it's all over and he is safe now. He had already seen and talked to them via the Resurrection Stone. He needed his mentor, Dumbledore, and not the father-figure, Sirius.And Dumbledore was probably already waiting for Harry there.As to how Dumbledore managed to be there? Aah well... Some forms of magic can't be explained."After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."You can just as easily assume that it was inside Harry's head.Harry wanted answers to question who he already knew the answers to subconsciously. He chose his mentor for some form of affirmation. Like I said, he needed his mentor and not a father-figure at that point. Dumbledore's man, through and through.
In Harry Potter 6 what does "Dumbledore's man through and through" mean?
When the minister says it to Harry, he means it to be sort of an insult...he's trying to imply that Harry is just Dumbledore's puppet, that Harry can't think for himself or make any decisions on his own. When Harry repeats it and takes pride in the suggestion, it's because he recognizes that being Dumbledore's man really means that he's on the right side. He trusts Dumbledore completely, and he's steadfast and loyal. The important thing about the phrase is how it's meant to sting Harry and make him question his commitment to Dumbledore and Dumbledore's line of thinking, but it doesn't work...but I think we all know that it plants a seed of doubt that springs up later.
What if some wizard paints a picture of voldemort?
Since paintings are simply a literal portrayal of the person painted, I don't think so. Basically, whoever you paint, the painting will obviously look like the person, and also retain the personality and some of the knowledge of the person based on what the painter knows about that person, which was why Dumbledore's painting could help Harry and such, but it isn't really Dumbledore himself there; the painting is not sentient, they are simply sentient /impressions/ of the person, and wizards know that they're not the real person, or capable of real cognition. Actually, the amount of knowledge the painting has relies on the amount of knowledge the painter has, so no, a painting of Voldemort would probably not know everything Voldemort did, unless the painter themselves knew. Harry listened to Dumbledore's painting because, I believe the question he asked was whether or not he should keep the Resurrection Stone, and the answer the portrait gave him was simply based on Dumbledore's personality; he definitely would have thought it was a good idea to leave the stone behind. Voldemort, however, was never exactly an advice-giver; everything he did, he did for himself, therefore, it's not very likely any sane wizard would carry out the orders of a Voldemort painting. When he was alive, most of his followers did it out of fear, but a portrait is nothing to fear. There are exceptions, like Kreacher, for example, who listened to the portrait of Sirius's mother, but I maintain that he was a little mad and just missed her very much. So who knows, perhaps a really devoted servant of Voldemort, who is a little mad, would be crazy enough to carry out the orders of a painting of him. Bellatrix comes to mind; fortunately she's dead.