According to Aberforth, their mother taught Albus secrecy. Less than a year later, Harry and Dumbledore were talking about why the former had to stay at the Dursley house despite his miserable existence he endured there. Dumbledore replied that it was good, because if he had known, the plan would not work. What we learned in The Secrets of Dumbledore | Wizarding World Dumbledore tells Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) that in 1899, during the same summer that Albus fell in love with Grindelwald, Aberforth also fell in love with a woman from Godric's Hollow. And yet it wasnt until Deathly Hallows that we realised: did we ever really know Dumbledore? Dumbledore and Harry Potter are also quite similar in some ways: They were Gryffindor students, they wear glasses (Harry wears full moon and Dumbledore wears half-moon), both are half-bloods, both their mothers were Muggle-born and both were brilliant Hogwarts students. Dumbledore seems genuinely surprised that Snape is still acting out of his love for Lily. Among these students were future Order members Arthur Weasley and Molly Prewett, Death Eaters-to-be Bellatrix Black and Lucius Malfoy. While he hardly ever spoke of this guilt to anyone, Dumbledore admitted it to Leta Lestrange in an effort to get her to open up about her own guilt and admitted that he had not loved Ariana enough during her life. He could have protected Harry himself, and taught him powerful magic that'd ensure Harry would be better suited to take care of himself as well. Dumbledore instantly believed Harry and his friends about Sirius's innocence, but the Minister did not. [46], As though the opening of the legendary Chamber of Secrets some thirty odd years back had not been bad enough, however, a young witch by the name of Patricia Rakepick arrived at Hogwarts and eventually caught Dumbledore's attention not only by virtue of the fact that she had been unusually gifted magically, but also due to her extensive research into the fabled Cursed Vaults. The TRUTH about Newt Scamander, he continued to deny that Dumbledore was responsible for his trip to New York in the foreword of a new edition of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. As a supremely talented wizard, Dumbledore showed numerous examples of extraordinary abilities. Having love for other people, even if they might be different from you or come from different places, is a powerful thing. Dumbledore in return considered Harry to be a talented and powerful wizard who had inherited his parents' best qualities, noting that Harry was a leader of superior quality to himself, as Harry led because others looked to him to lead them rather than because he had ever sought power or authority for himself. He also served as Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards (?1995) and Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot (?1995; 19961997). Dumbledore says that Harry's capacity for love, despite the treatment he suffered at the hands of the Dursleys, was his greatest "weapon" against Voldemort (who was completely incapable of understanding it). Aberforth having a son was never mentioned in the Harry Potter series, so it will be interesting to see how Fantastic Beasts will continue to explore Aberforth and Credence's relationship without breakingthe Harry Potter canon. Im pretty sure that Harry and his friends are creating a potion to turn themselves into other people this year (and doing it in the girls bathroom, I mean, ew ). Therefore, he feared that he may have indirectly given Voldemort a servant to return him to power. Albus took a train to the London Underground and up to Piccadilly Circus and pondered before walking off to a London cafe to have a meeting with his former partner, Gellert Grindelwald. Throughout Harry Potters time at Hogwarts, Albus Dumbledore seemed to have Harrys best interests at heart. Yusuf was ordered to go to Nurmengard and spy on Grindelwald, while Lally already had the Portkey book. She was extremely opposed to his decision to place Harry Potter with his narrow-minded Muggle aunt and uncle, saying that "You couldn't find two people who are less like us. For men and women are not born great. Elphias suffered from Dragon Pox, and everybody avoided him. Archived post. He maintained close contact with these friends in the form of enchanted books they all possessed which allowed them to speak despite the distance. Five minutes later, Dumbledore was sitting on their living room floor by the fireplace, eating crumpets and playing Gobstones with Remus. The event badly shook Leta. However, Harry Potter was able to find the Chamber himself, and there, defeated the beast that dwelt within; Salazar Slytherin's basilisk. Ginny Weasley admired Dumbledore a lot and became his student in 1992. if(typeof ez_ad_units != 'undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[320,50],'bookstacked_com-medrectangle-3','ezslot_2',122,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-bookstacked_com-medrectangle-3-0');if(typeof ez_ad_units != 'undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[320,50],'bookstacked_com-medrectangle-3','ezslot_3',122,'0','1'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-bookstacked_com-medrectangle-3-0_1'); .medrectangle-3-multi-122{border:none !important;display:block !important;float:none !important;line-height:0px;margin-bottom:7px !important;margin-left:auto !important;margin-right:auto !important;margin-top:7px !important;max-width:100% !important;min-height:50px;padding:0;text-align:center !important;}But, despite his status as a one-hundred-plus-year-old veteran of the Wizarding World, the one who had an Order of Merlin, who was the Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot, the Headmaster of Hogwarts, we have to ask ourselves did he really have Harrys interest at heart? Dumbledore doesn't always wear his spectacles in the films (except the third where he was wearing them during every on-screen appearance in that film, while in the fourth film he wore his spectacles at different times, in the fifth film he wore them only during the Start-of-Term Feast and in the sixth film, he wore them just during the Start-of-Term Feast and for a brief moment in his office examining Tom Riddle's diary just before Harry entered and sees Dumbledore's memory of meeting Riddle. Even though it's been over a decade sinceHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallowshit bookshelves worldwide and brought J.K. Rowling's beloved series about the Boy Who Lived to an end, us fanshave understandably refused tomove on. The two resumed their friendship, and Sirius helped Dumbledore to recall the Order of the Phoenix an hour after Voldemort returned. This seems to indicate that Grindelwald no longer held the views of those who practised the Dark Arts and had contemplated and felt remorse over his actions and that his lie was a last act to repent for his sins, something which Dumbledore acknowledged to be true, implying despite Grindelwald's crimes, Dumbledore still retained some fondness for him and believed that he truly had felt remorse over his crimes during his imprisonment in Nurmengard. WARNING! When his son asks, "Did you ever think of me? He was also able to convince the Headmaster to allow Hagrid to remain at the school as the groundskeeper-in-training. But know him? It is unknown when exactly he returned to Britain, but around the time he did, Albus had become intrigued with the study of dragon's blood, and was ultimately credited with the discovery of no less than twelve new uses for it[33] (even though a wizard by the name of Ivor Dillonsby would later claim that he had already discovered eight of them when Dumbledore "borrowed" his notes);[30] an accomplishment that earned him widespread recognition and ultimately played no small role in the subsequent offer he received of a teaching position at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. 168 lbs (1997)[4]175 lbs (formerly) (1932)[10] At the apex of Dumbledore's wrath, which happened extremely rarely, such as when he apprehended Barty Crouch Jnr, who impersonated Moody and almost killed Harry, Dumbledore was described as "being struck with cold, ancient fury". His early losses greatly affected him early on, even at his death many years later, but, in turn, made him a better person. [47], During his final talk with Harry in his office, Dumbledore came close to telling Harry about his connection with Voldemort but refrained from doing so as he felt that twelve years old was still too young to learn the truth and he wanted Harry to enjoy this night of triumph. He became a member of the Order of the Phoenix after his graduation. He once reminded Harry not to pity the dead but to "pity the living and above all, those who live without love.". The drink also was weakening him and made him extremely thirsty as well and caused him great pain (the whole purpose of the potion). Albus knew his days were numbered, so he did nothing to stop Voldemort's plan to bring about his elimination. He left Harry to suffer at the hands of the Dursleys and did nothing to stop their abuse and neglect. DUMBLEDORE KNOWINGLY LEFT HARRY WITH ABAD FAMILY, DUMBLEDORE HIRED TERRIBLE PEOPLE TO TEACH HARRY, ALBUSDIDN'T DO ANYTHING TO STOP HARRY AND SNAPE'S RIVALRY, DUMBLEDORE LIED TO HARRY ABOUT HIS HEART'S DESIRE, DUMBLEDORE GAVE HERMIONE, NOT HARRY,A TIME-TURNER, ALBUS DIDN'T KEEP HARRY SAFE DURING THE TRIWIZARD TOURNAMENT, ALBUS SPENT MONTHS REFUSING TO LOOK AT OR SPEAK TO HARRY, ALBUS MADE HARRY TAKE PRIVATE LESSONS WITH HIS LEAST FAVORITE PROFESSOR, DUMBLEDORE SHOULD HAVE TOLD HARRY ABOUT HIS IMPENDING DOOM, ALBUS ASKED A TEENAGER TO EMBARK ON AN INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS MISSION, DUMBLEDORE DIDN'T TELL HARRY HE WAS A HORCRUX, HARRY DIDN'T REALLY KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HIS FATHER FIGURE'S HISTORY, DUMBLEDORE WAS RARELY THERE FOR HARRY WHEN HEWAS NEEDED, ALBUS FAILED TO TEACH HARRY ANY POWERFUL SPELLS, DUMBLEDORE HAD SEVERAL OTHER TOOLS HE COULD'VE GIVEN HARRY, BUT DIDN'T, ALBUSDIDN'T BREAK THE ELDER WAND TO ENSURE VOLDEMORT COULDN'T USE IT AGAINST HARRY. In Fantastic Beasts 3,Albus himself explains Credence's absence from their lives when he tells Newt: "Had I been a better friend to Aberforth, had I been a better brother, he might have confided in me. Per the plan, Dumbledore was killed by Snape during the Battle of the Astronomy Tower. After James's death Dumbledore returned the cloak to James's son, Harry. Death, however, served to restore him to full health and strength: his spirit was described as walking sprightly and upright, with hands that were both whole and white and undamaged, and looking exactly how Harry remembered him to be. Harry was also seeing Lupin off too and Dumbledore could tell that Harry was troubled. Albus Dumbledore was tall and thin, with silver hair and beard (auburn in his youth) so long that they could be tucked into his belt. Despite dying to Snape in 1997, Dumbledore's legacy allowed Harry Potter to defeat Voldemort once and for all in 1998. [56][57] On occasion, he would also see students in his office, be it because of a misdemeanour that had to be addressed, or because one of the pupils sought redress during conflicts with their peers, such as Bertha Jorkins. He had originally intended to use the Resurrection Stone to bring back his parents, so that the heavy responsibility on his shoulders would be lifted. He believed that lying to Harry was the only way to get him to do the right thing when the moment forHarry to die arrived. In 1996, Dumbledore and Lucius fought in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries. Dumbledore explains more to Harry about what happened the night of his parents death as Harry gets older. Albus thanked Newt for his help, to which Newt replied that if Albus asked him again, he would help him.[15]. Because young Riddle was a ward of the state and she the custodian of the institution at which he lived rather than the boy's legal guardian, however, Albus were purposefully vague in his reasons for wanting to meet the boy. He was the son of Percival and Kendra Dumbledore, and the elder brother of Aberforth and Ariana. Nevertheless, he still trusted Dumbledore enough to confide in him about how Harry felt Voldemort awaking inside him the night that Mr Weasley was attacked. [105], Harry approached him again after hearing Albus and Scorpius Malfoy, the son of Draco Malfoy, are kidnapped by Delphini, the daughter of Lord Voldemort, where he asked Harry what he was doing and answered Harry's questions. Dumbledore giving his customary school speech, Dumbledore and several teachers (McGonagall, Flitwick, Sprout, Snape and, dubiously, Quirrell) at Hogwarts planted magical security methods to protect the stone. During his funeral, directly after a ceremony official gave his eulogy, his body was encased in bright white flames that gave off smoke in strange patterns, and Harry Potter thought he saw the form of a phoenix fly out of the blaze. Dumbledore first met James Potter and Lily Evans during their first year at Hogwarts, where he was the Headmaster. Here are20 Things Fans Ignore About Harry & Dumbledore's Relationship. Albus Dumbledore knew all about Lily's wicked, envious sister Petunia and was seemingly aware that Vernon Dursley was an equally cruel man, but he left Harry in their care anyway. Dumbledore admired him, because he didn't care about power or popularity, which is quite ironic as Dumbledore once craved at least one of these things. Dumbledore displayed an innate trust of Rubeus Hagrid in every situation starting from when Hagrid attended Hogwarts. Voldemort started a dangerous duel during which he used all of his tremendous magical capabilities in an attempt to murder Harry Potter along with his former teacher. The original Order of the Phoenix, his allies. [46] A year later, when Harry Potter returned to Hogwarts on a mission given to him by Dumbledore, she did not question the decision of her dead friend, but immediately sought to provide whatever assistance she could. Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, his former students. He once claimed to have a scar above his left knee in the precise shape of a map of the London Underground, but whether or not he actually did is unknown. . He thusassures Aurelius that they simply didn't know where he was and that they had never abandoned him. 'No, I was merely reading the Muggle magazines,' said Dumbledore. He is the most complex character, with a tendency to be positive at the very end of the series, and not just a bitter, sarcastic and frustrated man from the beginning. Dumbledore attended many Death Eater trials, including that of the Lestranges and Barty Crouch Jnr. However, he had enough sense to realise that he will inevitably have to duel Grindelwald and therefore he took the position as the Professor of DADA to prepare students for the upcoming dark times.