Who is albus dumbledore

He was also witness to Igor Karkaroff's testimony which secured his release from Azkaban in return for the names of fellow Death Eaters. Although Dumbledore had long given up his desire to unite the Hallows and become Master of Death, he could not resist the thought of studying the Cloak.

To that end, he borrowed it from James while James and Lilly were in hiding. He confirmed that it was indeed the cloak of legend, but before he could return it, James and Lilly were killed by Voldemort. This unfortunate occurrence provided Dumbledore with ownership of two of the Hallows.

Ten years later, Harry started attending Hogwarts, as happy as Dumbledore had hoped despite suffering Child Neglect and some forms of Child Abuse , and alive and well. That very year, Lord Voldemort formulated a plan to regain human form. Dumbledore and his friend Nicolas Flamel , the only known maker of the Philosopher's Stone , began to suspect that the disembodied Dark Lord was plotting to steal the invaluable object which would be capable of restoring him to full power.

Dumbledore had the stone moved to a vault at Gringotts Wizarding Bank , but later had it moved to Hogwarts itself; coincidentally, on the same day that an attempted break-in was made upon the vault. It was retrieved by Hagrid, who was also taking Harry to buy his school supplies. Dumbledore and several teachers McGonagall, Flitwick, Sprout, Snape and, dubiously, Quirrell at Hogwarts planted magical security methods to protect the stone.

Dumbledore was behind the final, and most powerful protection placed upon the stone. He enchanted the Mirror of Erised to contain the Philosopher's Stone, only to be removed by someone who did not intend to use or possess it, but only to keep it from the hands of evil. Dumbledore suspected that the Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor Quirinus Quirrell was behind the plot to steal the Philosopher's Stone, while working for the weakened Lord Voldemort , and as such he asked Snape to keep an eye on him.

Dumbledore advising Harry from seeking out the mirror again. Over a series of nights, Harry Potter proceeded to visit the Mirror of Erised as often as he could to see his parents ' faces. Dumbledore found Harry visiting the mirror one night, and after explaining to Harry what the mirror was all about, told him that the mirror was to be moved and requested that Harry not go looking for it.

Before heading back to bed, Harry asked Dumbledore what he saw when he looked into the mirror. Dumbledore claimed to see himself holding a pair of thick, woolen socks, telling Harry that "one can never have enough socks. However, Dumbledore was joking — the matter being a very personal one. As revealed to Harry in Dumbledore always, since the incident in his youth, saw his family whole and intact, free of any pain or suffering.

Dumbledore visits Harry Potter in the hospital wing. Voldemort failed for the same reasons he had failed to kill Harry previously: due to Lily Potter 's love for Harry. When Voldemort, who had possessed the body of Quirrell, ordered his servant to attack the young boy, the protection instilled within him at the point of his mother's death killed him and forced the Dark Lord's spirit to flee.

When Harry recovered from the ordeal in the hospital wing, he questioned Dumbledore about why Voldemort had tried to kill him as a baby.

Dumbledore did not believe that Harry was ready to know the truth about the Prophecy Sybill Trelawney had made, and told him he would know when he was older although this would actually later turn out to be a mistake. This may have shown an unprofessional amount of bias towards Gryffindor to announce their win in such unusual circumstances. Albus Dumbledore and colleagues discovering a blood-written message on the wall.

Shortly into the school year of , students again fell under attack from a beast allegedly released from the Chamber of Secrets. Under the influence of Lucius Malfoy , the Hogwarts board of governors voted to remove Dumbledore from his position as Headmaster when he proved unable to uncover the culprit; Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge also had the groundskeeper Rubeus Hagrid taken to Azkaban, acting under the theory that it had been he who opened the Chamber in It was later revealed that first year student, Ginny Weasley , had come into possession of Tom Riddle's Diary , a bewitched object capable of interacting with whoever wrote in it.

The diary slowly drained the life force from Ginny, and when the memory it contained was nearly strong enough to take physical form, it had her journey into the heart of the Chamber.

However, Harry Potter was able to find the Chamber himself, and there, defeated the beast that dwelt within; Salazar Slytherin's Basilisk. He also destroyed the diary with one of the basilisk's fangs, saving Ginny and defeating the nearly fully formed memory of Riddle.

Harry was only able to achieve these feats by displaying an extreme amount of loyalty to Dumbledore; for only someone truly loyal to the Headmaster would be capable of summoning his pet phoenix Fawkes , who provided the tools needed for Potter to defeat Riddle and the basilisk.

Harry and Dumbledore talk after Harry slayed the Basilisk in the chamber. Dumbledore mysteriously returned to his position as Headmaster after the memory of Riddle was revealed as being behind the attacks.

He commended both Harry and Ron for solving the mystery with the Special Award for Services to the School and two hundred points each for them, securing Gryffindor for the House Cup for the second year running and again ruining Slytherin's chances, fuelling the hatred and rivalry between the two houses. He also secured Hagrid's release from Azkaban and cancelled exams as a special treat.

However, Dumbledore was privately concerned by the phenomena that Harry described; a mere memory capable of taking physical form was unheard of. Dumbledore then began to suspect that Riddle's diary was in fact a Horcrux , and furthermore, considering the lack of care the Dark Lord had taken in protecting the diary, that he had created more than one.

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.

Dumbledore in The year after, the Ministry of Magic took it upon itself to increase security around Hogwarts. Sirius Black , who had been sentenced to life in Azkaban for murdering Peter Pettigrew and several Muggles with a single curse, had escaped from the wizarding prison.

The Ministry, afraid that he was going after Harry Potter , placed a large number of Dementors at Hogwarts to try to recapture him. Dumbledore reluctantly tolerated the Dementors on school grounds, but refused to allow them within the school itself. However, the Dementors violated Dumbledore's decree when they entered Quidditch match between Gryffindor and Hufflepuff , causing Harry to fall unconscious and fall from the sky. Dumbledore was able to prevent Harry from hitting the ground and repelled the Dementors with a Patronus.

Dumbledore hinting that Harry and Hermione should travel back in time. As the school year drew to its close, it became clear to Harry and his friends that Sirius Black had been framed for his crimes.

But Sirius was captured, locked in the highest tower, and sentenced to the Dementor's Kiss. Dumbledore believed Harry and his friends about Sirius's innocence, but the Minister did not and Dumbledore was incapable of over-ruling the Ministry's decision, despite him being Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot , granting him the power to order a trial. The rescue was a success, Sirius escaped on Buckbeak and the Dementors were removed from the grounds for their attack on Harry and the attempted removal of his soul.

Harry Potter and Dumbledore seeing Remus Lupin off. Dumbledore saw Remus Lupin , the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, off after Snape leaked his identity as a werewolf to the school. Harry was also seeing Lupin off too and Dumbledore could tell that Harry was troubled. Harry explained how guilty he felt allowing Pettigrew, the real culprit who had framed Sirius, to escape, which coincides with a prediction Trelawney made.

Therefore, he feared that he may have indirectly given Voldemort a servant to return him to power. Dumbledore assured Harry that he did a noble thing in saving Pettigrew's life, forging a deep, magical bond between them, and he promised Harry that one day he'd be glad he spared Pettigrew.

At the end of the year Dumbledore began to feel uneasy about concealing the truth of Sybill Trelawney's prophecy because even though Harry was still young, he had proven himself to be exceptional, and he would have to be told soon. Albus Dumbledore withdrawing Harry's name from the Goblet of Fire. Before the beginning of the new school year, the first Death Eater activity in years broke out at the Quidditch World Cup , causing Dumbledore to suspect that the second rise of Lord Voldemort was near.

Later, Hogwarts played host to the first Triwizard Tournament since It was decided that only students of age would be allowed to enter their names to the Goblet of Fire, because of the dangers the tournament represented, and Dumbledore personally drew an Age Line around the magical artefact to ensure that this rule would be impossible to break.

Moody took this position only as a personal favour to Dumbledore. On the orders of Voldemort, Crouch brewed Polyjuice Potion , which he used to impersonate Moody and take his place at Hogwarts.

Crouch, in the guise of Moody, successfully fooled the Goblet of Fire and ensured that Harry Potter was chosen as the fourth champion of the Triwizard Tournament.

Crouch secretly aided Potter throughout the tournament, so that in the final task it would be him to touch the Triwizard trophy first; which he had bewitched to become a Portkey. The interrogation of Barty Crouch, Jr. When Harry and fellow champion Cedric Diggory touched the trophy at the same time they were transported to the graveyard of Little Hangleton.

There, Diggory was killed on the orders of Lord Voldemort, and Harry's blood was taken as the final ingredient in a potion the Dark Lord used to return to full power. Using the Portkey, Harry was able to escape Voldemort and return to Hogwarts. It was when Crouch, still in the guise of Moody, took Harry from out of Dumbledore's presence something the real Moody never would have done in such a traumatic situation that the headmaster realised that it was not Moody who had been at the school the whole year.

Dumbledore, Snape and Minerva McGonagall quickly overpowered the Death Eater, who revealed the entirety of Voldemort's plan under the influence of Veritaserum.

Despite all evidence to the contrary, Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge refused to believe that Lord Voldemort had returned to power and had Crouch subjected to the Dementor's Kiss before he could be forced to stand trial before the Wizengamot.

Despite this, Dumbledore knew that Voldemort's return was real and, in response to Fudge's failure to act, reformed the Order of the Phoenix , an alliance brought together during the First Wizarding War to fight against Voldemort and his followers.

Dumbledore chose to reform the Order as he feared that the start of the Second Wizarding War was lingering and inevitable to happen.

Again, Dumbledore was reminded of Harry's exceptional skill and knew that he would surely have to be told of the prophecy soon, but again he chose not to, out of a desire to spare Harry an additional burden. Campaign to discredit Albus Dumbledore and Harry Potter. The Ministry immediately began to deny Dumbledore and Harry's claims that the Dark Lord had returned, starting a smear campaign designed to slander and vilify them; in particular, Dumbledore was removed from his positions as Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot and Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards as punishment for his refusal to stay in line with Ministry propaganda.

However, Dumbledore professed not to care, so long as the Ministry did not eliminate him from Chocolate Frog Cards. He confessed that he believed that Fudge's persecution of him was of his own free will and not due to the Imperius Curse , though this was small comfort.

Before the beginning of the school year, Dumbledore was made Secret-Keeper of the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix , and ensured that Harry Potter's friends did not divulge any information about the Order to him.

Dumbledore defending Harry at his disciplinary hearing. Dumbledore attended Harry's trial at the ministry, arriving three hours early at five a. He presented Arabella Figg for Harry's defense and offered to call Dobby to testify that Harry had not used a Hover Charm in , and reminded Fudge that he himself had pardoned Harry's accidental inflation of Marjorie Dursley. He also commented the unusual behaviour of the court holding a full criminal hearing for a simple case of underage magic.

After the Wizengamot had ruled in Harry's favor Dumbledore left without having so much as spoken to Harry or looked at him. When the time came to choose the Prefects from the fifth year Dumbledore considered Harry, but out of sympathy for the ordeals he had faced and the ones still to come, he chose to spare him the added responsibility and passed it on to Ron Weasley. This decision confused some people who had assumed Harry would naturally receive it, and would have shown solidarity with the young wizard.

Dumbledore had come to fear the connection that existed between the Dark Lord and Harry, and purposely avoided him throughout the school year. When signs of this connection became increasingly obvious, Dumbledore had Severus Snape attempt to teach Harry the art of Occlumency , rather than himself, as he feared that Voldemort may have been able to peer into his mind through his connection to Harry.

Umbridge and Fudge slowly passed laws that siphoned the powers of the Headmaster, while increasing those of Umbridge herself, who had been granted the new position of High Inquisitor of Hogwarts. In response to Umbridge and the Ministry's refusal to teach practical defensive magic, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley created a group of students that met secretly to learn defence against the Dark Arts.

This organisation was known as Dumbledore's Army. Dumbledore escapes the Ministry workers. When this illegal society was uncovered, Dumbledore willingly took the blame; pointing out that it was named "Dumbledore's Army, not Potter's.

In Dumbledore's stead, Umbridge was named Headmistress of Hogwarts and took full advantage of her position and authority over students and staff alike. Unfortunately, as Dumbledore had feared, Voldemort finally acted to use the connection between himself and Harry Potter.

Using Legilimency , Voldemort created a vision that indicated that his beloved godfather, Sirius Black, had been captured by Voldemort personally and was being tortured by him within the Department of Mysteries. However, the six students were ambushed by a group of Death Eaters, who hoped to force Harry to recover the record of the prophecy made about him and the Dark Lord; as only those who were the subjects of a prophecy could retrieve it, and Voldemort perceived that it was too dangerous to enter the heart of the Ministry of Magic himself.

Dumbledore during his duel with Tom Riddle. Near the end of the battle, Dumbledore himself arrived and personally captured all the Death Eaters; except Bellatrix Lestrange , who murdered Sirius and evaded a spell cast at her by the revered wizard. After binding the Death Eaters with an Anti-Disapparition Jinx , Dumbledore went to the atrium of the Ministry where Lestrange had been joined by Voldemort himself, who attempted to kill Harry.

Voldemort's curse, however, was prevented; Dumbledore quickly animated a golden statue to cover Harry and shield him from the curse. He animated the other statues from the Fountain of Magical Brethren to immobilise Bellatrix and alert Ministry officials.

Subsequently an intense duel erupted between Dumbledore and Voldemort; arguably the two most powerful wizards of their time. Both wizards displayed a deep understanding of magic, though Voldemort was forced to flee the battle after Dumbledore imprisoned him within a dome of water.

Dumbledore telling Harry the whole prophecy. As Voldemort fled, he briefly possessed Harry, hoping that Dumbledore would sacrifice the teenager in an attempt to kill him. However, as Harry dwelt on his grief for his late godfather, the power of his love inflicted pain on Voldemort, prompting the Dark Lord to remove himself and block his connection. Voldemort fled with Bellatrix, but not before he was seen by Ministry officials, including Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge.

With Dumbledore's credibility realised once more, Fudge's was permanently lost. Dumbledore demanded that Fudge remove Umbridge, pardon Hagrid so he could return to Hogwarts and that himself would be reinstated as headmaster. Once he was back at Hogwarts, Dumbledore consulted with a distraught Harry, explaining the meaning of his connection with Voldemort and asserting the meaning of the prophecy.

As a supremely talented wizard, Dumbledore displays numerous examples of extraordinary powers. His abilities as a wizard are combined with a kind of cunning and subtlety of mind that allowed him to comprehend human nature and turn the better aspects of humanity trust, love, and friendship to Voldemort's disadvantage in particular.

More than anything else, Dumbledore has a deep capacity for love, frequently reminding Harry that love was the greatest magic of all. Dumbledore believes in the good in everyone and insists on giving second chances. Dumbledore is highly perceptive and emotionally intelligent; his knowledge of a person's true personality goes beyond simply being a good judge of character. In the opening chapter of the first novel of the series, Dumbledore arrives at number four, Privet Drive in Little Whinging, Surrey.

When the evil wizard Lord Voldemort kills Harry's parents before being reduced to a lesser form, Dumbledore decides to place the now-orphaned Harry in the home of Vernon and Petunia Dursley. He knows that Harry will be protected by the special magic caused by his mother's sacrifice, after he evokes the magic of the bond of blood and Harry's aunt, his mother's sister - Petunia Evans Dursley, sealed it by accepting her nephew into her home.

This old magic of binding love renders Voldemort incapable of touching Harry. Dumbledore leaves Harry upon the doorstep of the Dursley home with a letter explaining the situation. He departs with the final phrase, "Good luck, Harry. In the second novel, Dumbledore suspects that Tom Riddle is somehow involved in the attacks on the muggle born students, as he says, when asked who is the culprit, "not who, but how? During the last half of the novel, Lucius Malfoy forces the school's other eleven governors to suspend Dumbledore as Headmaster in the wake of attacks by a basilisk in the school when the Chamber of Secrets is opened.

Dumbledore is reinstated when the governors discover that Ginny Weasley was taken into the Chamber of Secrets and Lucius is found to have coerced the other governors into suspending him. At the beginning of the third novel, Dumbledore is forced to accept Dementors onto his school's grounds for the protection of his students from Sirius Black , the supposed murderer and accessory to murder, who had escaped from Azkaban.

After Black's breach into Hogwarts, Dumbledore issues orders to close every entrance to the school and grounds. After Harry falls off his broomstick during a Quidditch match because of the Dementors, Dumbledore becomes uncharacteristically angry with them and uses his wand to cause Harry to levitate safely to the ground.

In the fourth novel, Dumbledore introduces the Triwizard Tournament. He also serves as a judge during the entire event. When Harry's name comes out of the Goblet of Fire, Dumbledore is not enraged, but remains calm; simply asking Harry whether he had himself, or had asked an older student to submit his name.

When Harry answers no, he believes him. By the end of the book, Dumbledore's fears are realized when Harry returns from his encounter with Voldemort clutching the dead body of Cedric Diggory and when Mad-Eye Moody takes Harry away from Dumbledore and to his office inside the castle. Dumbledore immediately becomes suspicious and heads straight towards Moody's office with Minerva McGonagall and Severus Snape to save Harry and to interrogate Crouch.

Afterwards, Dumbledore listens to Harry's eyewitness account about Voldemort's return. In the fifth book, Dumbledore is demoted from Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot, voted out of the Chairmanship of the International Confederation of Wizards, and is almost stripped of his Order of Merlin First Class due to his speeches regarding the return of Voldemort, although it is reported that he is unconcerned as long as he is not taken off the Chocolate Frog cards.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Magic does everything they can to discredit him and Harry. Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore. Birth August, Death June 30th, Distinguishing Features He wore half-moon glasses, had a long, crooked nose, and flowing silver hair, beard, and mustache. Scar in the shape of the London Underground above his knee. Family Groups Dumbledore family. Related Entries. Harry Potter. Gellert Grindelwald. Rubeus Hagrid. Severus Snape.

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In an e-mail, Christopher Woosley writes: "Although not widely known, an alternate meaning for the word Dumbledore is a style of hat the was made semi-popular in London in the ss. Notes Related images: Regarding the date of Dumbledore's death: Is the "" date from Rowling's website a typo, or intentional?

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