Albus Dumbledore

## Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore

> *"No wizard alive has more secrets than Albus Dumbledore.”*
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— Adriana Weitts revealing a glimpse of her views on Albus Dumbledore to a curious Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Forsaken's Ascension: Chapter 11: Alliances and Atrocities, November 1st 1991

Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore is an influential member of the magical community of Britain. He is renowned for being the defeater of Grindelwald and 'The only one The Dark Lady feared'. He is also the Leader of The Liberal Faction.

## **Early Life:**

Albus Dumbledore was raised in Godric's Hollow with his brother Aberforth and sister Ariana. Ariana became an Obscurial, which greatly constrained Dumbledore's plans for the future. He was renowned for his skill in transfiguration and defense, and struck up a relationship with Gellert Grindelwald. After a short dalliance, which ended with Ariana dead, Grindelwald and Dumbledore parted ways.

On the morning of April 25th 1945 he arrives to battle an already tired — due to his prolonged fight with Emily Riddle — Gellert Grindelwald in the courtyard of Katalysator. Shortly after his arrival, Grindelwald is forced to retreat.

## **Career:**

Dumbledore eventually returned to Hogwarts, where he taught both Defense Against the Dark Arts and Transfiguration. He eventually became Headmaster of the school, after Armando Dippet's retirement.

## **Grindelwald's War:**

Albus Dumbledore defeated Grindlewald after a massive, epic duel. For this, he was renowned, and was eventually appointed as Supreme Mugwump of the ICW and Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot.

## **The Purity War:**

Dumbledore was a staunch opponent to Lady Voldemort, and leader of The Order of The Phoenix. He heard the prophecy from Trelawney, and sent the Potter's into hiding. After The Godric's Hollow Raid, he supported Peter Pettigrew's plan to have Harry Potter raised by the Dursleys.

In the aftermath of Lady Voldemort's defeat he convened the Wizangamot for an emergency meeting that would be presided by Barty Crouch, as it was his due as the Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. During that meeting the Death Eaters that supported Lady Voldemort were tried and sentenced to Azkaban.

## **1991:**

At the beginning of the new school year the welcomes the students to Hogwarts and presents Amelia Hurst as the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. During the same speech the mentions the general rules regarding magic, pranks, the forbidden nature of the Forbidden Forest, and to the shock of some and amusement of others the risks of death for those who venture to the third-floor corridor on the right-side.

On September 6th he ends up meeting with Charlus Potter in his office. During their meeting he lectures Charlus on the importance of family and urges him to treat Professor Snape with respect and decency.

When a troll breaks into Hogwarts during the Samhain feast he orders the students to remain in the Great Hall until further notice. Then he, with some of his fellow professors, rushes to find the troll. When he finds the troll dead in the vicinity of Harry Potter he is somewhat disappointed that Harry only stumbled upon the troll by chance and that he did not went looking for it.

Later on that day he places the school under lockdown and calls the teachers to the staff room. There he reveals the death of Terrence Higgs at the paws of the Cerberus. He then proceeds to test the wands of all the staff members via the Priori Incantato. At the end of the meeting he redirects the staff to inform the Aurors that the student died on the second floor not in the forbidden part of the third floor — that is imposed under the oath of secrecy that he had made the staff swear in regards to the Philosopher's Stone at the end of the school year.

## **1992:**

> *“So you’d throw me to the wolves to protect your golden boy?”*
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— Harry Potter remarking upon Albus Dumbledore's care for all his students, Harry Potter and the Forsaken's Ascension: Chapter 17: For The Greater Good, June 8th 1992.

In the aftermath of the Gryffindor-Hufflepuff Quidditch match he has a not-so-private conversation in the Forbidden Forest with Severus Snape. That conversation ends up being overheard by the Potter Twins. During his discussion he talks about the Philosopher's Stone hosted on the third floor corridor and about Sinistra's Imperius curse. From Dumbledore's behaviour it is highly likely that he was orchestrating for an end-of-year confrontation between Charlus Potter and Lady Voldemort to occur.

In the conclusion of the Philosopher's Stone plot he meets with James, reveal to him the thirds stanza of the Prophecy, and convinces him to send Harry Potter to the Dursleys for the summer. Later on June 8th he meets with Harry who has just woken up in the Hospital Wing and takes him to his office for a meeting. Dumbledore confirms to Harry that Charlus was indeed the Boy-Who-Lived, not Harry, and that it was because Lily Potter sacrificed herself for her children. He also explains that Voldemort wasn't gone and that Dumbledore will only tell him why Voldemort wanted to kill him and Charlus when he is older. After this, Dumbledore explains to Harry that he needs to return to Privet drive to power the blood wards there, and that James agreed to the plan, that it is for the greater good, and that Dumbledore will know if he tries to escape.

After the end of the school year, on June 20th, Dumbledore is visited in his office by Severus Snape. There he is confronted about what really happened in the school's catacombs at the end of the academic year. They discuss Lady Voldemort and her latest actions. After further prodding from Severus, Dumbledore admits that he had orchestrated the whole confrontation between Charlus and Voldemort. Severus, to Dumbledore’s surprise, expresses his dissatisfaction in regards to the expendable manner in which Harry Potter was treated.

A couple of days later he departs for the annual ICW convention. When he returns to Hogwarts on July 18th he finds out through Grindelwald's Blood Ward detector that the blood wards at Privet Drive are somewhere between hours and weeks away from failure. He apparates to Privet Drive to see what happened, and legilimizes the Dursleys to solve the mystery after they say Harry Potter ran away. Dumbledore detects a memory charm, but can't break it without seriously harming the Dursleys, and so the trail goes cold.

On July 31st, he is present at the Charlus Potter Birthday Gala. There he dines alongside the Potter family and some other important members of society. When greetings are exchanged between the members of the Potter family and the Minister for Magic, he indicates to Harry that it might be a good idea to introduce himself. Later on, when Griselda Marchbanks discussed with Harry his end of year results, he is the one to encourage James Potter to allow Harry to make a demonstration, most likely in a bid to better ascertain the boy's current level.

The evening of September 1st finds him at Hogwarts. He welcomes the new students, gives his announcements and opens the feast. Some days later, on September 4th, he has a private conversation in his office with James Potter about the abuse that Harry suffered at the hands of the Dursleys. Dumbledore tells James that he never believed that they would outright abuse Harry and that he sent him back to them believing that Harry was in fact overplaying their mistreatment. He then goes on to explain how his sister was attacked by muggles at a young age, as a result of that attack she ended up fearing her own magic and his father ended up in Azkaban whilst seeking retribution. Then, Dumbledore assures James that Harry will not be sent back to the Dursleys, as he would not condemn him to such a fate, and that the blood wards have fallen so their protection is now a moot point. He informs James that his current plans now revolve around fixing the bond between the two brothers.

Dumbledore's opening move in mending the relationship between the Potter twins comes on September 11th when he has a private conversation in his office with Charlus. During their discussion he reveals all the manners in which Charlus has been a git towards his twin.

The evening of September 25th finds him in his office, busy with paperwork. Eventually he is joined by Charlus Potter with whom he has a conversation about the Weasleys behaviour in regards to Ginerva's sorting into Slytherin. He then proceeds to tell Charlus about the near-fatal prank that was pulled on the Slytherin Quidditch team some two night ago. When he asks the boy if he suspects anybody Charlus remains silent. The Headmaster also reveals that he is going to announce the beginning of a formal investigation the following morning during breakfast.

After the feast on October 31st, he is forced to deal with the fiasco that is the reopening of the Chamber of Secrets. He determines that the Caretaker's cat in petrified and not dead. He also expresses his belief that Harry Potter is not responsible for the whole thing. At some point during the night he sends a letter to James Potter explaining to him the latest developments and asking him to determine if there is any blood ties linking the Potters to the Slytherins.

The evening of December 17th finds him obliged to intervine in the newly reformed Dueling Club as he ends up using Fiendfyre to disperse the Magical Cyclon resulted from the destruction of the Magical Dome that was created during the Potter Twins duel. The next day he has a conversation with Charlus where the boy claims that Harry was the one who taught him his Dark Spells during the summer. Hence, he ends up summoning Harry to his office an a verbal confrontation ensues. Before he can take actions that could potentially lead to the boy's expulsion he is stopped by the arrival of James Potter that ends up vouching for Harry's innocence and claims that Charlus' book from where he learnt the Dark Arts came in fact from him. Thus, he is forced to stop his investigation into Harry's alleged guilt.

Some days later, on December 21st, he ponders in his office the events of the last couple of days, and the Chamber of Secrets debacle as a whole. He is quite convinced that the perpetrator is the same one as some fifty years in the past, but he is uncertain how they are acting. Eventually his mussings come to a halt with the arrival of Severus Snape with whom he ends up discussing the happenings surrounding the Dueling Club incident. They meeting concludes with Dumbledore revealing that he does not think that Harry is the Heir of Slytherin, but that does not mean that he could not in fact be doing their bidding. He asks Snape to watch Harry closely which the professor agrees to do.

The next day he summons Harry again to his office and the two of them end up admitting their distrust in one another. Their conversation concludes with Dumbledore warning Harry to stop the attacks in the eventuallity that he is in fact the Heir of Slytherin and Harry informing him that he is going to exercise his right as an Heir and leave the castle for the afternoon.

Harry is summoned one again to the Headmaster's Office, for the third time during the same week in fact on December 23rd. Once in the office, Harry is informed by the Headmaster of the death of his uncle, Vernon. Harry, as he has decided some time ago not to care about those relatives, simply does not care. This fact makes Albus reveal that this sort of behaviour reminds him of Voldemort from back when she was a student, among other things that he does not want to mention.

Two days later, on December 25th he plays host to the Golden Trio that was caught using Polyjuice and sneaking into the Slytherin Common Room. Somehow he decides not to expel them for their illegal potion usage and ownership but instead to give them detention and some minutia additional punishments.

## 1993:

On January 8th, Dumbledore invites Charlus for a talk into his office. After a short talk where he informs the boy that Lords Carrow and Warrington are charging his father in order to gain financial benefits due to his Polyjuice debacle, he starts telling him about Occlumency.

The day of January 11th, finds him and the rest of the staff looking for the missing Daphne Greengrass. When their efforts prove in vain he calls the professors and informs them that he will let Lord Greengrass know of the developments at the school and that in turn will lead to actions being taken by the Wizengamot — among other their attempt in removing him from the school, most likely that coinciding with Lucius Malfoy trying to shake the faith that the Hogwarts Boards of Governors has on him.

Some days later, on January 14th he presides over an emergency session of the Wizengamot. There, Cyrus Greengrass tries to force the temporary closure of Hogwarts and its search by the Aurors. His plan is thrown into chaos when a message by the Heir of Slytherin is delivered by the court scribe revealing that the missing students are still alive, but, if Hogwarts were to close then they would never see the light of day ever again.

Following the emergency Wizengamot session of January 14th. He goes to Amelia Bones' office to discuss the possible persons to be sent to Hogwarts to investigate. He was not invited to the gathering but he manages to convince them to allow him entry. He is the one who proposed that three Aurors should be sent to Hogwarts, whilst their top detective investigates outside the castle.

He ends up being removed from his position of Headmaster of Hogwarts by the Board of Governors on the evening of March 12th. At some point during the same night, he arrives at Potter Manor. There he asks for lodging for the night whilst explaining to James Potter the happenings of the evening. He reveal to him that he has never believed Harry to be in fact the Heir of Slytherin, but at most a puppet in their machinations. They conversation ends with Dumbledore announcing his plans to travel outside the British Isles to discover exactly what is attacking the students — as such information has been wiped from the British Isles centuries ago.

On the outskirts of Greece on May 26th, Albus Dumbledore, after looking for information in one of the few places that were deeply rooted in Chaos, realizes that he needs to have a conversation with the only person that would potentially know about the kind of Chaos Magic that his thinking about and would be willing to answer his queries.

The evening of June 4th, finds Albus arriving in secrecy in Gellert Grindelwald cell. There he questions him on some facets of Chaos Magic. Albus moves the conversation onto basilisks — the so called king of serpents, born out of Chaos Magic — and onto the possibility of them being altered so that they gaze does petrify their victims instead of killing them. Once he is satisfied with the answers that he received he prepares for his departure, but not before Grindelwald warns him that one day he will be back asking more questions.

Dumbledore appears back to his hotel room on the outskirts of Greece with the help of Fawkes. Given the Ministerial staff already deployed at Hogwarts he can not risk his return to the school. Thus, he writes a message and sends it via Fawkes back to Hogwarts.

> *“Very well. I see you have chosen your path. Walk it carefully, Harry, for it is not the one I would have advised.”*
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— Albus Dumbledore, for some strange reason considering that Harry is making the wrong choice by refusing to be under his abusing thumb any more, Harry Potter and the Sacrificial Slytherin: Chapter 37: The Toppling of Crowns , June 14th, 1993.

On June 14th, alongside James Potter, he meets with Harry Potter. There he finds out that due to his behaviour, he is under charges of criminal neglect as he has not done his duty to intervene and inform the authorities when he had the indications that Harry was being mistreated due to James' actions — as was his duty as Headmaster. At the end of all this, Dumbledore, for some unknown to reasonable rationale, decides to warn Harry of the path that he has decided to walk as it is not one that he would have recommended.