Döden själv kan eventuellt existera, eftersom förmodligen Beedle Bard bevittnade bröderna Peverell trotsar döden. Efter att ha sett bröderna korsar en förrädisk flod med magi konfronterades de av Döden som då gav dem de dödliga Hallowsna.
The being known as Death is the embodiment of the universal phenomenon marking the end of physical life, and may or may not literally exist. The best–known account of the entity is known as "The Tale of the Three Brothers", and was made famous Beedle the Bard. According to this story, he was the one who witnessed the three Peverell brothers defy him by successfully crossing a deadly and dangerous river using magic.
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“There were once three brothers who were traveling along a lonely, winding road at twilight. In time, the brothers reached a river too deep to wade through and too dangerous to swim across.. However, these brothers were learned in the magical arts, and so they simply waved their wands and made a bridge appear across the treacherous water. They were halfway across it when they found their path blocked by a hooded figure.
And Death spoke to them. He was angry that he had been cheated out of three new victims, for travelers usually drowned in the river. But Death was cunning. He pretended to congratulate the three brothers upon their magic and said that each had earned a prize for having been clever enough to evade him."
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter Twenty-One
Nu var orsaken i den här historien att Döden skapade Hallowsna till att börja med att hävda de trollkarlar som lurade honom från att hävda dem.
Den äldsta broderen hävdades efter att han besegrade en trollkarl i en duell och pratade sedan på ett värdshus, där han på natten dödades av någon som ville staven.
"That very night, another wizard crept upon the oldest brother as he lay, wine-sodden, upon his bed. The theif took the wand and, for good measure, slit the oldest brother’s throat.
And so Death took the first brother for his own."
Den andra bröderna dödade sig själv efter att ha upptäckt att även om han kunde återvinna kvinnan som han ville gifta sig med, skulle hon inte vara i denna värld och var kall och lidande.
"Yet she was sad and cold, separated from him as by a veil. Though she had returned to the mortal world, she did not truly belong there and suffered. Finally the second brother, driven mad with hopeless longing, killed himself so as truly to join her.
And so Death took the second brother for his own."
Den sista och yngste broren bodde i ålderdom eftersom han gömde sig från Döden, gav sedan kappan till sin son och gick med i Döden.
"But though Death searched for the third brother for many years, he was never able to find him. It was only when he had attained a great age that the youngest brother finally took off the Cloak of Invisibility and gave it to his son. And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life.”
Den enda anledningen till att jag tror att det kan vara troligt att döden existerar är i varje berättelse varje bror fått ett föremål som så småningom skulle leda dem till deras död så att döden skulle hävda dem.
På flipglaset finns inga konkreta bevis för att Döden existerar som en fysisk manifestation. Det enda som kan sägas är att Dumbledore trodde att bröderna själva skapade artefakterna och att historien var utsmyckad.