Then Dumbledore realized that this was merely an excuse Manus had devised-a reasonable pretext for telling him about the Resurrection Stone.
At that moment, Dumbledore was so moved that tears nearly filled his eyes.
Still, he answered Manus's question seriously:
"Of course, this idea didn't just occur to me. In the past, I also searched for ways to bring... to bring people back to life. Unfortunately, I found very little."
Dumbledore had even turned his attention to fields considered taboo within dark magic itself-though resurrection was, in fact, already taboo among the many branches of magic.
Yet in the end, he had still found nothing.
He had discovered plenty of spells that could prevent someone from dying, provided preparations were made beforehand, but not a single spell that could bring back the dead.
"The closest I came was finding a spell that could reconstruct someone's body from flesh and blood and bring them back to life. But it could only reconstruct the body. Fundamentally, it still required its subject to be alive."
Even if the subject had lost their physical body entirely, their soul still had to be alive for the body-reconstructing Resurrection Magic to work.
At this, Manus gave Dumbledore a somewhat surprised look. You've read "Bone, Flesh, and Blood" too?
Manus offered no comment on that, instead pressing further:
"Then why didn't you try developing a spell to bring people back to life yourself?"
"Develop one myself..."
Dumbledore smiled bitterly. How could it possibly be that easy?
"I tried that too. But I would have been better off searching for an existing method of resurrection."
Only when Dumbledore actually tried to create a way to resurrect someone did he understand why such methods were so hard to find.
To resurrect someone-or, for that matter, to produce any magical