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Albus-- do you know the meaning of bodhisattva? It means: a being bound for enlightenment. A Buddhist term. There is some debate as to whether it refers solely to those who have attained Parinirvana (the final stage of nirvana, generally achievable only through death: though they were Muggles after all) or to those who will stop short of that stage, who will not reach for (liberation?-- that is not quite what the term translates into, I think) until they have achieved the enlightenment of every other sentient being. They do this out of the GREATEST COMPASSION.