8 Movie Fan Theories That Were Confirmed By The Creators

Dumbledore being Death isn't something that appears to make a whole lot of sense; isn't Dumbledore a hero, and Death the ultimate enemy?

Regardless, fans who carefully examined The Tale Of The Three Brothers (which appears as an animated sequence at the end of Deathly Hallows: Part 1) found a shocking number of parallels between the old wizard and the personification of Death who appears in the story.

The Tale Of The Three Brothers starts with a trio of wizards smartly evading Death's clutches. As a reward, Death grants each of them a gift: one brother takes the powerful Elder Wand, another requests a Resurrection Stone, and the third asks for an Invisibility Cloak. These objects are the Deathly Hallows.

But the story doesn't end so well for two of these brothers. The first brother - after bragging about the power of his wand - is killed in his sleep, and the second brother kills himself to be with the woman he loves, after discovering that the Stone couldn't truly bring her back to life. The third brother lives to an old age, where he removes his cloak, gives it to his son, and greets Death like an old friend.

These brothers are said to represent Snape (who loved the deceased Lily Potter), Voldemort (who was obsessed with the power of the Elder Wand) and Harry (who uses the Invisibility Cloak, which his father possessed before him), but J.K. Rowling also confirmed that Dumbledore is the personification of Death.

But how? Well, Dumbledore has possessed each of the Hallows at one point or another, and he even gives Harry the Cloak in the first movie.

Plus, Dumbledore could be considered responsible for Snape's and Voldemort's deaths, and he's also the one who greets Harry - like an old friend - in King's Cross station, after the scarred young wizard "dies" at Voldemort's hands.

Mind. Blown.